Man unwittingly live-tweeted the raid on Osama Bin Laden

TechCrunch Europe has reported on the man who unwittingly live-tweeted the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan which led to his death. Twitter user @ReallyVirtual had a close-up view of the entire US operation and only realized 9 hours later what he had witnessed.

It is a bizarre and bittersweet day and will be difficult to think of anything Apple related today. We live in an amazing time where there is no longer a news cycle and citizens have become journalists of circumstance thanks to iPhones, Twitter and Facebook.

Read Mike Butcher’s full report below.

[via TechCrunch Europe]

James Britton

James first bit into Apple when his mom and dad bought an Apple IIe in 1986. He switched to Wintel in the mid 90s when Apple was in a tailspin and back again to an iBook in 2005 when things were looking brighter. Hopefully there is no turning back to the dark side now.