Kitcatt Nohr Digitas

Our friends at We Are Social have carried out a super-speedy analysis of how Twitter reacted to the news of Osama bin Laden's death. Not surprisingly, it all got very busy, as this graphic shows, with more than 5,000 tweets a second. That's a lot of tweets, but not as many as on New Year's Eve in Japan last year. I wonder what that makes you think about social media...

(I'm not sure whether they are trying to suggest that Keith Urban broke the news, and presume they are using him as an example of tweeters. But what is more interesting about this story is that this may be the first truly global event that was 'broken' by social media – as you can read in my post 'Who on Earth is Sohaib Athar?')