Bin Laden Raid Was Tweeted Live

The raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was suggested initial on Twitter.

An IT consultant, living in Abbottabad, unknowingly tweeted sum of the US-led operation as it happened.

Sohaib Athar wrote that a helicopter was hovering up above before long before the attack began and mentioned that it might not be a Pakistani aircraft.

He usually became wakeful of the stress of his tweets after President Obama voiced sum of Bin Laden's death.

Mr Athar's initial posting on the theme came at around 1am local time (9pm BST).

He wrote: "Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a singular event)."

Soon after, he reported the sound of an explosion, right away well known to have been US forces blowing-up their shop-worn helicopter.

"A outrageous window jolt crash here in Abbottabad Cantt. we hope its not the beginning of something nasty :-S"

Throughout the raid, Mr Athar was diagram on data from friends in the local area who were moreover online.

"The couple of people online at this time of the night are adage a of the copters was not Pakistani..."

"People are adage it was not a technical mistake and it was shot down. we listened it CIRCLE 3-4 times above, sounded purposeful."

US officials settled that the raid took reduction than 40 minutes, but Mr Athar mentioned there was still a army participation in the area two hours later.

"And now, a craft drifting over Abbottabad..."

In his Twitter biography, Sohaib Athar describes himself as: "An IT expert receiving a break from the rat-race by stealing in the plateau with his laptops."

However, his postings during and after the raid exhibit a disappointment that world events had caught-up with him.

"I theory Abbottabad is going to obtain as swarming as the Lahore that we left at the back for a few harmony and quiet. *sigh*"

Mr Athar told the BBC's Nosheen Abbas in Pakistan that his tweets has led to a torrent of talk requests from media organisations around the world.

He moreover mentioned that he was not astounded to be the usually person essay about events as they happened.

"I've been tweeting for about 5, 6 years, and been tweeting about Abbottabad because no a unequivocally talks about it,

"In fact, not many people use Twitter here. Everyone uses Facebook," he said.

Even before President Obama fixed the demise of Osama Bin Laden, sensitive tweeters were speculating online about the reason for a hastily-organised White House press conference.

Keith Urbahn, arch of staff to one-time US counterclaim personal assistant Donald Rumsfeld wrote: "So I'm told by a creditable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden."

While a few observers have cited Mr Urbhan's chatter as serve indication that the mainstream media is struggling to keep up with Twitter, the writer himself was sceptical.

He wrote later: "My source was a related network TV headlines producer. Stories about 'the demise of MSM' since my "first" chatter are severely exaggerated."

In other tweet, he said: "As sufficient as we think in way up of "citizen journalism," blogs, chatter etc supplanting normal media, my chatter isn't great indication of it."

In the 5 years since Twitter was created, it has played a flourishing purpose in the stating of world events.

The initial peek that many people had of the site's future was in 2009 when a US Airways craft done an crisis alighting on New York's Hudson.

Ferry newcomer Janis Krums tweeted a photo of the stricken aircraft, moments after it came down.

More recently, Twitter has been hailed as a matter in creation world events happen.

Anti-government protesters in the Middle East and tools of Africa have done endless use of the website, along with Facebook to pass out their messages.

The 2011 Egyptian uprising, that led to the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak, has been at large referred to as the "Twitter Revolution".