It's not often the President schedules a press conference late on Sunday evening. I wondered but dismissed it. Then I started watching my Twitter feed.
What an amazing chain of events unfolded--Osama Bin Laden dead.
I saw one person say that they'll remember where they were when they heard the news of Osama Bin Laden's death - they were on Twitter. I can heartily concur. This is the first big event where I heard the news via Twitter and watched details unfold little by little.
What occurred to me in watching the various posts was how organic the whole thing was. We've talked in class about some big social media events like the Super Bowl and the Oscars, but you don't really see the power of this tool until events like today.
What an amazing night!
It is so crazy to think that when 9/11 happened my mom told me to remember exactly where you were when you heard the awful news. She told me exactly where she was when Pearl Harbor happened and she said that I would never forget that day for the rest of my life and will someday live to tell my kids where I was.
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I was on Facebook when the events unfolded. I immediately switched to Twitter and saw everything go crazy. There were so many posts coming in as I was watching!
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