Twitter user covers the raid on Bin Laden without knowing it ...

Another example of how Twitter is changing the world. A civilian any minute recounting the raid has ended up costing the life of the world's most wanted terrorist was unthinkable a few years, but the social platform and we are accustomed to these displays of citizen reporters.

The present case is even more curious when we consider that Sohaib Athar ( @ ReallyVirtual on Twitter) was not aware that his tweets related to the U.S. operation in Pakistan and therefore his death would precede the narrative itself Osama Bin Laden.

Athar is a computer consultant in Abbottabad, a town where the terrorist was hiding and which took place on military deployment. This tweeted and the arrival of the first helicopters, nine hours before the mission to fruition:

Abbottabad helicopters fly at 1 am (it is rare to see.)

Athar also reported how one of the helicopters crashed, but it seemed at all Pakistani. Later we discovered that one of the four U.S. helicopters involved ended up being killed by enemy fire.

In his testimony, twitterers was about two or three kilometers from the scene, it was not long until he discovered the nature of their "coverage":

Wow! I'm the guy who has live blogged the raid without knowing Osama! Still I'm just a twitterers awake at the time of impact and there are not many Twitter users in Abbottabad. Here tend to prefer Facebook. That's it.

Also modest. For him it is the tremendous sense of becoming premier information source (the file was uploaded by said to Twitpic to show the calm of the area after the action.)

Twitter user covers the raid on Bin Laden ... unknowingly written ALT1040 on 2 May, 2011 by José Carlos Castillo
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