How BinLaden news spread
By Techgirl

By now, every TV station and newspaper in the world has reported the death of America’s Public Enemy No. 1 Osama Bin Laden.  Bin Laden was tracked down to his hideout in Pakistan and killed by American commandos.

So, how did the news ripple across in the online world? Sysomos, which specializes in monitoring social media, has just released a report quantifying the numbers and times of Tweets, Social network mentions etc on the internet

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In less than 12 hours since the tweeting began we saw almost 40,000 blog post and news articles and an astounding 2.2 million tweets all talking about Osama Bin Laden. As well, while it was no surprise that people in the US were talking the most about this event a look at our geo-location map shows us that people all over the world were tweeting about the news.

Some other interesting things that I noticed was that people were making jokes about Foursquare leading to the finding of Bin Laden. As time went on, people started using Foursquare to check into places associated with the death of Bin Laden. Some people were checking in to the location where Bin Laden was found, while others were checking in to a “Post Osama Bin Laden World”.
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Techgoss note:  Techgirl is a senior Tech journalist who reports on the IT, KPO and KPO Sectors for a leading media house.  In her spare time, she dabbles in satire in her blog techgirltalk.blogspot.com.  Techgirl has been ejected from Twitter for satirizing an Indian Minister.  Her satire blog has links to her Times of India interview detailing her being kicked out of Twitter, and then being invited back.