Aeration bin Laden death faster than traditional media first Twitter 20 minutes

According to foreign media reports, technology blog Business Insider authors mate·luosefu (Matt Rosoff) wrote that on Sunday, the earliest reported Al-Qaida chieftain aosama·Ben·la
(Osama Bin Laden) killed messages not the major traditional media giants, but micro-blog Twitter. Twitter has ushered in its own “when CNN
Carve “.

Remember CNN and shot to fame after the 1990 Gulf war? Prior to this news report and not so quickly. Then it was Saddam Hussein (Saddam Hussein) invasion of Kuwait, followed by the sudden CNN is ubiquitous, even in bars are playing is a CNN report. Late on Sunday announced that United States special forces near the town of Abbottabad in the Pakistan capital Islamabad killed after bin Laden, Twitter also ushered in its “CNN moment”.

Twitter is the first reported United States President Barack Obama will be made national TV speech, announced that bin Laden was a US special forces killed the news media. This event occurred in the United States May 1 EST (Beijing time on May 2). In the United States 22:25 (Beijing time on May 2), United States Defense Secretary tangnade·lamusi field before (Donald Rumsfeld), a former Chief of staff of the post a message on Twitter: “a prestigious people just told me, they kill bin Laden. Is great! ”。

Which the traditional media have not given the “official” confirmed until 20 minutes later. This means that traditional media news coverage time has been more slow Twitter out for 20 minutes. Until the United States May 1 Eastern time (Beijing time on May 2), President Obama released a TV speech. At this time, reports on Twitter has already shifted from rumors some strange observation, such as “Hitler was certified dead at 66 years ago today”, to criticize Fox News “Osama” wrong spelling “Bsama” and so on. In addition, Twitter has appear a lot of sick jokes and false accounts, such as OsamainHell (EL-BAZ, Osama in hell), GhostOsama (EL-BAZ, Osama ghost), and so on.

At the same time, after the end of President Obama’s televised speech, TV show host bulaien·weilianmusi (Brian Williams) and resumed his solemn cliché TV program as a whole seemed to become stale and boring. In other words, Twitter is faster, more accurate, more entertaining than any other news source.

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