The visual rendering of the tweet "Osama bin Laden has been killed" around the world

Keith Urbahn’s tweet that Osama bin Laden had been killed will likely live on throughout history. As you can see the visual representation of the tweet’s impact shows just how it spread last Sunday night — the first announcement of bin Laden’s killing — one little message set a firestorm of awareness throughout the internet.

As we noted before, no other medium captured the action as it was happening, though users on Facebook may also have conversed about the raid as it was happening. If anything, this series of tweets will probably show how Twitter had its true “CNN moment,” much like the 1990 Gulf War opening was captured by CNN.

Source: VentureBeat