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Not a post about the death of bin Laden
May. 6th, 2011 02:43 pmI don't have anything to say about Osama bin Laden that hasn't already been said. But I will say that it was a pretty surreal night, last Sunday.
I was on Twitter around 9:45pm, starting to think about maybe going to bed, when there came out some tweets saying that President Obama would be holding a press conference at 10:30, topic unknown. So I figured, okay, I'll stay up for that, could be interesting.
But as the minutes went by, and the word spread, it started to sink in how unusual this was. ( cut for length )
Amusingly, as I was writing this post, I got a tweet alerting me to this blog post, which is a really interesting analysis of the tweet that started it all, and how/why it spread. Check it out.
I was on Twitter around 9:45pm, starting to think about maybe going to bed, when there came out some tweets saying that President Obama would be holding a press conference at 10:30, topic unknown. So I figured, okay, I'll stay up for that, could be interesting.
But as the minutes went by, and the word spread, it started to sink in how unusual this was. ( cut for length )
Amusingly, as I was writing this post, I got a tweet alerting me to this blog post, which is a really interesting analysis of the tweet that started it all, and how/why it spread. Check it out.
