Online revelry at Osama bin Laden's death

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Word of Osama bin Laden's death rocketed through the Internet in rapid-fire Twitter messages, Social Media updates, and YouTube video clips.

The number of terse text message "tweets" at Twitter topped 4,000 per second while US President Barack Obama announced.

The barrage of tweets was among the highest message-sending outbursts at Twitter, which handed a record high number of 6,939 tweets-per-second when New Year's Eve 2010 arrived in Japan.

Messages tagged with "#osama" and "obl" quickly jumped to the top two spots in a list of the hottest topics at the global microblogging service.

By the time Sunday ended in California more than a 250,000 people had "liked" an "Osama bin Laden is Dead" page at social networking service Facebook.

Google-owned video sharing website YouTube dedicated nearly a third of its home page to clips related to bin Laden's death and the celebrations breaking out on US streets.

At geo-location service Foursquare, more than 160 people in San Francisco had "checked in" to a "Post-Osama bin Laden World" using their smartphones. (AFP)

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