Bin Laden News Breaks Twitter Record [The Internet]

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There were 3,440 tweets per second posted about Osama Bin Laden's death for a two-hour stretch on Sunday, the "highest sustained rate of tweets ever." And somehow Twitter managed not to crash. (Talk about a hard-won American triumph.)More Read More ...