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How The Osama bin Laden Story Spread On Twitter
May 2nd, 2011 | no responses
An aide to former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld broke the news that Osama bin Laden was dead — on Twitter. And an IT guy in Pakistan unknowingly live-tweeted the attack.
Follow along (at Storify) to see how the story played out on Twitter.
This is what it means to have the real-time web plus a networked world citizenry. And today, Twitter is still a relatively niche communications tool.
Imagine what life could be like in 5-10 years.
No more secrets?
