Osama Bin Laden

Status updates are at the very heart of the Facebook experience. They’re how its 800-million strong community shares thoughts, emotions and ideas. Now the world’s largest social network has taken those updates and collated them into a list of top trending topics for 2011.According to an official blog post, ...

The death of Osama Bin Laden has already brought one man Sohaib Athar, the man who “unwittingly” gave the world a front row seat to Bin Laden's death and unexpected fame. However, yet another person has now received their 15mb of fame kudos to the death of Bin Laden.In a ...

Osama bin Laden's death is the buzz word in most societies this week. There are people celebrating, people begging for proof of his death and people interested in how the man who has evaded capture for nearly a decade finally got caught.It's 'Osama bin Laden week' online and offline. ...

The Pakistani IT consultant who hoped for a quiet life in a summer resort town in Pakistan has become an internet sensation as the first to report the attack on the world's most wanted man.Sohaib Athar was just another witty voice on microblogging site Twitter until he heard the sound ...

Twitter has proved itself to have far more power and reach than just the 140 characters bursts it allows. Many global events and issues have also become "Twitter events" thanks to the reach and power of the microblogging site.The death of Osama Bin Laden, after a "targeted bombing raid" as ...

The news of Osama Bin Laden's death has, not surprisingly, caused a major spike in internet traffic. The news of a successful mission to eliminate the most wanted man in the world sent users flooding the web for information and confirmation.Akamai’s Net Usage Index, a company which measures traffic ...