is no secret that the death of Osama Bin Laden became the event Sunday night and early Monday . A weekend very moved that included the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton England and beatification of John Paul II . The site Mashable noted that it set a record for page views, when it was reported on the death of the leader of Al Qaeda "Akamai Net Usage Index, which measures traffic the major news sites said registered 4.1 million page views around 11:30 pm Sunday , while President Obama spoke on television. "
This figure represented an increase of 28% in traffic in the U.S. and around the world 24% compared with the averages recorded for the hour and day. clear information that a measurement is exclusive only to news sites, not general Web .
As recorded Twitter tweets per second 4000 when he spoke the U.S. president.
The first tweet
And in these moments that are social networking, a lot of connectivity and speed, as the first information about the attack on the residence where Bin Laden was left, no doubt, a tweet.
Fast Company site was a job where reflected what would have been the first tweet that reported death of Osama . Keith Urbahn, head of the office of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld seems to have been the first to have news about the death of Osama bin Laden. In his account @ keithurbahn wrote that " although it was unlikely he would have been fired on the spot where the terrorist would have been (subsequently deleted that tweet and waited for confirmation of the news).
But people connected with Pakistan and who lives there , began to write strange things was happening . As in the case of Michael van Popper who wrote a helicopter crashed in Abbottabad. Or the Sohabid Athar who said helicopters flew Abbottabad at 1:00 am, a rare thing ...
As you know, Twitter has become the most immediate source of information.
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