Twitter breaks a record as users rush to react to Sunday night's news.
By Nuzhat Naoreen, with additional reporting by Kimberly Reynolds
People celebrate at Ground Zero on May 2
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Danny Al Hassan, 21, didn't learn about Osama bin Laden's death from a news website or television broadcast. He found out on Facebook.
"I checked my Facebook, and I noticed that all these Osama bin Laden statuses are up, and so that's how I figured it out," said Hassan, a senior at New York University.
He wasn't the only one. Many people took to Twitter, Facebook and other social-media platforms to express their thoughts on Bin Laden's death. Twitter, especially, saw a spike in activity, with the site announcing this morning that it saw the "highest sustained rate of tweets ever" during Sunday night's breaking news.
"There was a huge reaction, at least social-media-wise, definitely," said Lauren Pikman, a junior at Nyu.
By Nuzhat Naoreen, with additional reporting by Kimberly Reynolds
People celebrate at Ground Zero on May 2
Photo: Getty Images
Danny Al Hassan, 21, didn't learn about Osama bin Laden's death from a news website or television broadcast. He found out on Facebook.
"I checked my Facebook, and I noticed that all these Osama bin Laden statuses are up, and so that's how I figured it out," said Hassan, a senior at New York University.
He wasn't the only one. Many people took to Twitter, Facebook and other social-media platforms to express their thoughts on Bin Laden's death. Twitter, especially, saw a spike in activity, with the site announcing this morning that it saw the "highest sustained rate of tweets ever" during Sunday night's breaking news.
"There was a huge reaction, at least social-media-wise, definitely," said Lauren Pikman, a junior at Nyu.
- 5/2/2011
- MTV Music News
'It's a sense of not only victory, but taking back what was taken from us,' Olivia Morris tells MTV News.
By Nuzhat Naoreen, with additional reporting by Kimberly Reynolds
Alan Abbott, Nyu Student
Photo: MTV News
Michael Saidian, 21, was only in sixth grade when the Twin Towers fell. At the time, he said he felt afraid and unprotected. Now, nearly a decade later, with the news Sunday that Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. military operatives in Pakistan, the New York University student said he finally feels a sense of closure.
"It was really a moment where I felt some joy and I felt some closure for everything that happened in 9/11," he told MTV News.
His sentiments were echoed by other students interviewed at New York University's campus Monday afternoon, many of whom were too young to understand the events of September 11, 2001, but still remember the event that marked their generation.
By Nuzhat Naoreen, with additional reporting by Kimberly Reynolds
Alan Abbott, Nyu Student
Photo: MTV News
Michael Saidian, 21, was only in sixth grade when the Twin Towers fell. At the time, he said he felt afraid and unprotected. Now, nearly a decade later, with the news Sunday that Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. military operatives in Pakistan, the New York University student said he finally feels a sense of closure.
"It was really a moment where I felt some joy and I felt some closure for everything that happened in 9/11," he told MTV News.
His sentiments were echoed by other students interviewed at New York University's campus Monday afternoon, many of whom were too young to understand the events of September 11, 2001, but still remember the event that marked their generation.
- 5/2/2011
- MTV Music News
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