SAN FRANCISCO - death of Osama bin Laden Word exploded through the Internet in a messages from Twitter, Facebook updates and video clips from YouTube.
The number of cryptic text message to Twitter "tweets" has exceeded 4 000 per second while US President Barack Obama announced that the brain behind the terrorist attacks of September 11 was killed in Pakistan in a surgical strike by an American military team.
The dam of tweets has been among the highest explosions sending message to Twitter, which handled a record number of top of 6,939 tweets per second, the arrival Eve new year 2010 to the Japan.
Messages tagged with "# osama" and "Mand" quickly jumped to the first two spots in a list of the hottest topics in the overall service of microblogging.
"Twitter is our Times Square on victory day," tweeted Professor school of New York City journalism Jeff Jarvis, who started his blog Buzz Machine online after having been close to the World Trade Center, when it was destroyed.
Death of Word of bin Laden has apparently first filtered to Twitter in a public message sent by Keith Urbahn, Chief of staff of the former U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld.
"Therefore said me by a person of good reputation that they have killed Osama bin Laden," read a tweet sent by Urbahn about an hour before the President Obama announced the death. "Hot damn".
Consultant IT in the city of Abbottabad Pakistan, who tweets under the name of 'reallyvirtual', seemed to have delivered without an account in real time of the attack that killed bin Laden.
SOHAIB Athar started tweeting messages on one in the morning local time complaint on helicopters hovering and window rattling explosion.
His series of messages to Twitter said, in a helicopter crash, a family die and Pakistani military swarming the area.
"I am just a tweeter, awake at the time of the accident," he said in a message from Twitter to 06: 30 GMT Monday.
"Uh oh, now I'm the guy who live-blog of the raid Osama without knowing it," he tweeted after the connecting announcement of President Obama to what took place in his district. "".
At the time that Sunday ended in California more than 265,000 people had "loved" a page "Osama bin Laden is dead" to the social networking service Facebook.
Wholesale with large Facebook page was bin Laden comments, videos and photos, Comments lambasted the leader of Al - Qaeda killed many.
"It's a great day for the families of the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11," a Facebook user commented on the page.
In contrast, a set of English and Arabic pages Facebook entitled "We are all Osama bin Laden" had connected within 600 "likes."
"This page is a disgrace to Islam," a fresh comment to one of the favour Laden pages read.
"He has tarnished the name of Allah and (you are)" proud? "".has continued the message. "God have mercy on your ignorance."
Google-owned site video sharing YouTube dedicated part of his homepage for clips related to the death of Osama bin Laden.
The Foursquare geolocation service, more than 185 people in San Francisco had "archived in"a"Post-Osama bin Laden World"with their smartphones.""
"Would have been nice to capture live and try him for crimes against humanity;"show the world what we stand for the rule of law, Foursquare user "Jonathan h." commented with his check-in.
"But I'll take this close 2nd best and wear a toast to all those who have made this happen."
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