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Twitter had a CNN Moment

May 2nd, 2011 by Joseph Ruthaford

It was a long time coming and this day and age how could the death of a major figure somehow not be linked to technology. When most people turned to breaking news they would turn on CNN and catch what was happening, well twitter had many moments of breaking news. It is said that Twitter was the first place to report that President Obama would be addressing the nation and this happened at 9:45 and then at 10:25 Keith Urbahn, the former chief of staff for Bush’s Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, broke the news and quoted from twitter: “So I’m told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn.”

The rest of the media didn’t officially confirm it until 20 minutes later and President Obama didn’t speak until 11:35. Then came the rumor to fact and then interesting observations, such as that Hitler was actually confirmed dead exactly 66 years before.

It seems that Twitter is a good way to get information and also talk with other people about the events that are happening; maybe twitter isn’t as useless after all. Oh and one more thing to add to this…. We got em!

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