Following #Osama

How the year's biggest story unfolded

Two questions will be asked now: "Where were you when the towers fell?" and "Where were you when Osama was killed?" Like most people, I learned about 9/11 from a television set. I learned about Osama's death from a push notification on my iPhone, and went to Twitter.

Twitter broke it first. "So I'm told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot Damn," Keith Urbahn, Donald Rumsfeld's current chief of staff, wrote five minutes before President Obama was scheduled to speak.

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