New Delhi: "Uh oh, now I'm the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it," tweeted 33-year-old Sohaib Athar. The IT consultant had unwittingly live tweeted the raid that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden.
Athar who posts on twitter as @ReallyVirtual, put up a post on Twitter early morning May 2 about a helicopter hovering above Abbottabad. He also remarked that it was "a rare event." Irritated by the helicopter noise late in the night, "Go away helicopter - before I take out my giant swatter :-/" Athar tweeted.
He then posted about a loud blast and slowly the realisation dawned that something not quite right was happening. Athar continued tweeting and conversing with others on twitter through the night, perhaps not realising that he was documenting first hand an attack that will lead to the death of the world's most wanted terrorist.
His tweets made Athar an overnight celebrity on Twitter. According to Twitter Counter he added over 12,000 followers in only a few hours. Perhaps tired from all the activity he logged out from Twitter for a while. "I am too tired and sleepy to blog or talk about it though," Athar posted on his blog.
According to his profile on Twitter Athar is from Lahore and is "taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains with his laptops."####Timeline of @ReallyVirtual’s Osama tweets:
Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event).
Sohaib AtharReallyVirtual
A huge window shaking bang here in Abbottabad Cantt. I hope its not the start of something nasty :-SSohaib AtharReallyVirtual
@m0hcin all silent after the blast, but a friend heard it 6 km away too… the helicopter is gone too.Sohaib AtharReallyVirtual
@m0hcin http://bit.ly/ljB6p6 seems like my giant swatter worked !Sohaib AtharReallyVirtual
@m0hcin the few people online at this time of the night are saying one of the copters was not Pakistani…Sohaib AtharReallyVirtual
Since taliban (probably) don’t have helicpoters, and since they’re saying it was not "ours", so must be a complicated situation #abbottabadSohaib AtharReallyVirtual
@kashaziz technically, it is unidentified until identified, and it is a flying object, so year, why the hell not, we have seen weirder stuffSohaib AtharReallyVirtual
@wqs figures, if they have the right to shoot planes flying over the president house, the must have the same instructions for PMASohaib AtharReallyVirtual
@smedica people are saying it was not a technical fault and it was shot down. I heard it CIRCLE 3-4 times above, sounded purposeful.Sohaib AtharReallyVirtual
@smedica It must have been more, I started noticing the helicpoter when the noise got irritating – which part of Abbottabd are you in?Sohaib AtharReallyVirtual
Here’s the location of the Abbottabad crash according to some people > > > http://on.fb.me/khjf34Sohaib AtharReallyVirtual
Two helicpoters, one down, could actually be the training accident scenario they’re saying it was > > http://bit.ly/ioGE6OSohaib AtharReallyVirtual
and now I feel I must apologize to the pilot about the swatter tweets :-/Sohaib AtharReallyVirtual
And now, a plane flying over Abbottabad…Sohaib AtharReallyVirtual
Interesting rumors in the otherwise uneventful Abbottabad air todaySohaib AtharReallyVirtual
Report from a taxi driver: The army has cordoned off the crash area and is conducting door-to-door search in the surroundingSohaib AtharReallyVirtual
@kursed Another rumor: two copters that followed the crashed one were foreign Cobras – and got awaySohaib AtharReallyVirtual
@kursed Well, there were at least two copters last night, I heard one but a friend heard two, for 15-20 minutes.Sohaib AtharReallyVirtual
@kursed I think I should take out my big blower to blow the fog of war away and see the clearer picture.Sohaib AtharReallyVirtual
I guess Abbottabad is going to get as crowded as the Lahore that I left behind for some peace and quiet. *sigh*Sohaib AtharReallyVirtual
I guess I should unsubscribe from the #abbottabad search on twitter before it kills my machine. Leave Abbottabad alone, Osama and Obama…Sohaib AtharReallyVirtual
I need to sleep, but Osama had to pick this day to die :-/Sohaib AtharReallyVirtual
Uh oh, now I’m the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it.Sohaib AtharReallyVirtual
and here come the mails from the mainstream media… *sigh*Sohaib AtharReallyVirtual
oh I forgot, one needs electricity to make coffee, which, we don’t have right now in Abbottabad. :-/Sohaib AtharReallyVirtual
@ahmedbilal I need to find a large rock first, before the cameras arrive, lolSohaib AtharReallyVirtual
Ok, I give up. I can’t read all the @ mentions so I’ll stop trying.Sohaib AtharReallyVirtual
@cszrom The area is offlimits to everyone – and I have other commitments… #binladenSohaib AtharReallyVirtual
Uh oh, time to log out of Skype, this is insaneSohaib AtharReallyVirtual
And the big question is – now that OBL does not live in Abbottabad, is it open to terrorist attacks too?Sohaib AtharReallyVirtual
I am JUST a tweeter, awake at the time of the crash. Not many twitter users in Abbottabad, these guys are more into facebook. That’s all.Sohaib AtharReallyVirtual
I guess an ’is now following you’ GMail filter is the next logical stepSohaib AtharReallyVirtual
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