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Bin Laden's death and the Web response (roundup)

News that U.S. special forces had killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden traveled fast via Twitter and other Web outlets.

How bin Laden evaded the NSA: Sneakernet Reports offer details about trove of digital data found in his Pakistan hideout, like that it included a stash of "electronically recorded video" porn. (Posted in Privacy Inc. by Declan McCullagh) May 13, 2011 1:42 PM PDT

Visualizing how Twitter spread news of bin Laden's death A detailed visual look at how a single Tweet spread like a virus across Twitter within minutes--and scooped the president. (Posted in … Read more

Republican tweet govt.'s first word of bin Laden

The first U.S. government report that Osama bin Laden was dead didn't come from the White House. Nor was it the Pentagon, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, or the State Department.

Instead, it appears to have originated with a freshman Tea Party congressman from Florida, Dennis Ross, who posted a note to Twitter at 10:41 p.m. ET yesterday saying: "Bin Laden is dead. GOD BLESS AMERICA!" (See list of related CNET stories.)

That public announcement came nearly an hour before President Obama's White House appearance. It came three minutes before The New York … Read more