Casey Anthony Trial Blows Up Social Media

Twitter and Facebook erupted over Tuesday's verdict

Thanks to seemingly constant coverage on channels like HLN, the Casey Anthony murder trial was this summer’s hot "reality TV" ticket—and Tuesday’s verdict has become the hot topic of online conversation.

The not-guilty verdict came as a surprise to many observers and has naturally led to frequent comparisons to the O.J. Simpson murder trial. But O.J.'s 1995 acquittal came before the explosion of the social web. “The O.J. trial may have had broader media attention,” Brent Idarola, a Frost & Sullivan analyst, told The New York Times, “however, social media platforms were not in place at that time, so the collective echo chamber has been unprecedented.”

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