{"id":25786,"date":"2011-05-02T16:28:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T14:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/?p=25786"},"modified":"2011-05-03T23:13:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T21:13:52","slug":"da-twitter-la-morte-di-osama-bin-laden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2011\/05\/02\/da-twitter-la-morte-di-osama-bin-laden\/","title":{"rendered":"Da Twitter la morte di Osama Bin Laden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2011\/05\/01\/news-of-osama-bin-ladens-death-spreads-like-wildfire-on-twitter\/\">Via Techrunch<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the Twitterverse is to be believed, President Obama is about to  announce the death of terrorist and 9-11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden, in  an impromptu announcement broadcast on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/live?utm_source=wh.gov&amp;utm_medium=shorturl&amp;utm_campaign=shorturl\">Whitehouse.gov<\/a> and TV\u00a0this Sunday night at 10:45 EST.<\/p>\n<p>The news actually hit Twitter before the President\u2019s broadcast; CNN\u2019s Steve Brusk first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/stevebruskCNN\/statuses\/64875698829017088\">tweeted<\/a> that the announcement was National Security-related at around 7:25pm PST.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/gaberivera\/status\/64884376546189312\">The first credible sign<\/a> of the imminent announcement of Bin Ladin\u2019s death came from Keith  Urbahn, the Chief of Staff for former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld,  who\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/keithurbahn\/status\/64877790624886784\">tweeted<\/a> \u201cI\u2019m told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden.\u201d CBS news producer Jill Scott then confirmed the rumor shortly afterward\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/jacksonjk\/statuses\/64879954264997888\">with<\/a> \u201cHouse Intelligence committee aide confirms that Osama Bin Laden is dead. U.S. has the body.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Both Urbahn and Scott\u2019s tweets were re-tweeted hundreds of times and Twitter itself experienced <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/twitterglobalpr\/status\/64917013851680768\">traffic spikes<\/a> of 4,000 tweets per second (The NYT\u2019s Brian Stelter has a <a href=\"http:\/\/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/01\/how-the-osama-announcement-leaked-out\/\">more detailed account<\/a> of how the news broke <a href=\"http:\/\/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/01\/how-the-osama-announcement-leaked-out\/?src=tptw\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Update 3: Apparently, Twitter user @<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reallyvirtual.com\/\">Sohaib Athar<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ReallyVirtual\">@ReallyVirtual)<\/a> accidentally\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eu.techcrunch.com\/2011\/05\/02\/heres-the-guy-who-unwittingly-live-tweeted-the-raid-on-bin-laden\/\">live tweeted<\/a> the actual Abbottabad raid.\u00a0These <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badassdigest.com\/2011\/05\/01\/the-rock-knew-bin-laden-was-dead-before-anyone-else\">cryptic pre-announcement<\/a> tweets from wrestler\/movie star\u00a0Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson are also interesting to note. Hmm \u2026 So what happened here?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/mariotedeschini.blog.kataweb.it\/giornalismodaltri\/2011\/05\/02\/ma-veramente-osama-lha-fatto-fuori-twitter\/\">l&#8217;analisi della storia di Mario Tedeschini<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Techrunch If the Twitterverse is to be believed, President Obama is about to announce the death of terrorist and 9-11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden, in an impromptu announcement broadcast on\u00a0Whitehouse.gov and TV\u00a0this Sunday night at 10:45 EST. The news actually hit Twitter before the President\u2019s broadcast; CNN\u2019s Steve Brusk first\u00a0tweeted that the announcement was &#8230; <a title=\"Da Twitter la morte di Osama Bin Laden\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2011\/05\/02\/da-twitter-la-morte-di-osama-bin-laden\/\" aria-label=\"Per saperne di pi\u00f9 su Da Twitter la morte di Osama Bin Laden\">Leggi tutto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,30,31],"tags":[1637,344],"class_list":["post-25786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-media","category-mondo","tag-osama","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25788,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25786\/revisions\/25788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}