Osama is dead! How did tech bring you the news?

[italeki]

epictempo, what about Obama's credentials? Isn't he still refusing to release his college records?

 

[mstrze]

I got a CNBC push alert on my iPhone with the news, saying that Obama would speak 'momentarily' on TV.

Over an hour later, he was on.

 

[Blueline29]

Read several mentions on Twitter of an impending speech by Obama and knew that it was something major, being so late and on a Sunday night; I was afraid it was news of another threat or attack on the US. Was pleasantly surprised to find out that I was wrong when the flood of tweets with the news started up a few minutes later.

 

[RebeccaL]

Neat, you have an iPhone?! Cool, bro!

This is an iPhone forum. Most people here have iPhones .



I learned the news from IMDb on the iphone. There was an article with the celebrities opinions of Bin Laden's dead. I immediately googled it (I don't care about the celebs opinions just the real news article).

 

[Glideslope]

CNN Push.

 

[GP_1]

Facebook.

 

[takako]

facebook too

 

[TwoSocEmBoppers]

Old fashioned phone call right as it broke. Then about 45 min later AP mobile app notification.

 

[nburwell]

My girlfriend and I were watching TV when the news broke. So I guess I heard about it the old fashioned way. Although I immediately grabbed my iPhone to see what my Twitter and Facebook feeds were saying.

 

[bradl]

Good 'ol fashioned radio. NPR, and an hour before any of the TV stations ran anything.

BL.

 

[100Teraflops]

I was just about to ask... I was wondering if that news was brought to you on an extended battery. Good thing you happened to mention that.

Too funny!

Also, I found out from a newspaper publication "The Lantern." So technology has failed me yet again! BLAH

 

[sotorious]

osama is not dead. OSAMA WHERE YOU BEEN HIDDEN, and is in utah eating breakfast at ihop.

 

[BlindMellon]

epictempo, what about Obama's credentials? Isn't he still refusing to release his college records?

oh, god, please let it go.

 

[thetaylor13]

It didn't. I stumbled on to it on the BBC site whilst looking up sports scores for the weekend.

LOL. So technology did not help you? Just your computer and the internet?

 

[nefan65]

I got a direct SMS Text from him...it just read...

"Oh Crap..."

 

[Madonepro]

Lily Allen told me, she was fed up that all this news was detracting from the fact today is her birthday.

 

[EspressoQueen]

I walked into work at 10 pm. Everybody was watching it online. Osama should have believed Americans don't play that and GOD don't like ugly.

 

[kuebby]

I saw it in Facebook statuses and then Twitter updates. Then about 30-45 minutes later I got a CNN "breaking news" update.

 

[MassiveAttack]

The site I went to was Flash supported and had to buy the paprer to read what I couldn't view on my iPhone 4

 

[theonekcrow]

I found out from Twitter on my computer ironically enough. But then I started streaming a live MSNBC feed too.

 

[spiderman0616]

Reading my Flipboard on iPad 2 in bed--

I was just about to go to sleep and then saw one of my friends mentioned a big announcement from the president was coming--Moments later, my wife and I were watching the live feed on the CNN app.

 

[Orme]

I found out through macrumors

 

[soco]

I learned the news from IMDb on the iphone. There was an article with the celebrities opinions of Bin Laden's dead. I immediately googled it (I don't care about the celebs opinions just the real news article).

That's by far the most unusual method of someone getting major news I've ever heard.

+10 points for uniqueness lol

 

[TwinCities Dan]

Same as many other people I suppose...

 

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