Osama Bin Laden is dead: Here's how Twitter broke the news live - Pocket-lint: "Twitter is increasingly becoming the place where historic events and the news agenda are set.
In the past we've had the Hudson River plane crash story being broken on the micro-blogging platform, the uprising in Egypt fuelled by tweeting and communication in Japan following the recent earthquake being aided by the service too.
The latest significant news story to be broken (sort of) was the death of Osama Bin Laden. The events surrounding Bin Laden's death were live tweeted by several users - most notably by Sohaib Athar (@ReallyVirtual) of Abbottabad, Pakistan who live tweeted the event as it happened - albeit without any knowledge of exactly what was going on.
Athar, 'An IT consultant taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains with his laptops' first tweeted about unusual events in his village at 7.58pm on 1 May.
He said: 'Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event).'
This was followed by a number of tweets that seem to detail the US operation. Here's the full timeline:
'Go away helicopter - before I take out my giant swatter :-/' (May 01, 2011, 8:05 PM)"
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