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    A Twitter Timeline on the Killing of Osama Bin Laden

    by Mark Glaser
    May 2, 2011
    IT consultant Sohaib Athar unwittingly broke one of the biggest news stories ever via Twitter after he heard a helicopter at 1 am in Abbottabad, Pakistan

    Did you see any other key tweets around the news of Bin Laden’s killing? Share them in the comments below and I’ll add them to the timeline above.

    Mark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and Idea Lab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Association. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter @mediatwit.

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