So I'm told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn.![]()
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Keith Urbahn
The tweet that leaked the story from Keith Urbahn, whose Twitter bio states, “Chief of Staff, Office of Donald Rumsfeld, Navy Reserve intel officer, and owner of two miniature dachshunds. Opinions are my own. Hot damn.”
Links about Twitter:
- How the Bin Laden Announcement Leaked Out, by Towson alumni Brian Stelter for the NY Times
- First Bin Laden reports came in tweets, by the Washington Post.
- The man who tweeted the attack without knowing it, an example of a story told through Storify.
- How 4 people turned Sohaib Athar into a citizen journalist, on Poynter.
- Graphic: Twitter traffic hit over 5,000 tweets per second Sunday night.
On Patch:
- Bin Laden’s Death Brings Justice for Towson Family, by Towson alumni Nick DiMarco and Tyler Waldman.
- HuffPo Harnesses Patch Hyperlocals for Bin Laden news: “It perhaps showed how a scaled network of hyperlocals can mimic an old-fashioned wire service in the midst of major news stories, with reports from all over feeding the mothership.”
- The view from Patch, TBD critiques the Patch sites’ performances.
