Twitter said that news of bin Laden’s death "saw the highest sustained rate of tweets ever".
For more than an hour there were over 3,000 tweets per second about bin Laden, peaking at 5,106 tweets per second as President Obama addressed Americans. #link#
Posted: May 11th, 2011
at 8:34am by Black Ock
Categories: politricks,real life news,the column,#twitterisfothebirds
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Like with the railroad, innovations in years are going to be #built out
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--06.22.2012--From home to work and back each day #work
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--06.14.2012--This speaks of the tangible concerns of particular human beings #incompleteness?
--06.14.2012--The latest is, if nothing else, a monument to the fact that #art is
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