Twitter, the microblogging site records its second highest number of tweets related to a particular even when people tweeted at the rate of 5106 tweets per second at the peak time of the event. It was the highest sustained rate of tweets per second in the twitter history. On the total time span average tweets per second was around 3000.
Twitter always spreads the news earlier than news media. On sunday also, Keith Urbahn, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's chief of staff, spread the word via Twitter just before it was announced publicly in white house. A Pakistani IT consultant named Sohaib Athar, who lives in the city of Abbottabad where bin Laden was killed, unwittingly live-tweeted the event as it was happening and he even beated Urbahn and tweeted long before him.
Google also received similar response and ranked the keywords "osama bin laden dead" as "volcanic," the highest level it assigns for a trending topic. Osama topic has already been Google's hot topic back in 2006 when there were rumours that Osama had been killed.Following Twitter and Google, other news agencies also received the similar kind of response the whole night. Here is a brief report(top) from Akamai representing the global traffic rise for the top news agencies over the web. The bin Laden story resulted in a peak of more than 4.1 million page views per second on the news websites as per Akamai. The peak occurred at about 11:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, right as President Obama's made his live, televised statement. Just an hour before the news broke, there were roughly 2.5 million page views per second on those pages.
To the biggest surprise, all of the largest peaks in the top 13 were from events that occurred in 2010 or 2011, since Internet usage continues to rise globally. No. 14 high ranking is for the election of President Obama, which occurred in November 2008.
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