Friday, October 8, 2010

Twitter Goes Crazy After Barack Obama Wins Nobel

If you’re wondering why half of the Twitter trends are currently related to US president Barack Obama, news broke recently that he has been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. The official site of the Nobel Foundation is dying under the sudden surge of traffic, but the list of the Nobel Peace Prize laureates has already been updated, as you can see in the screenshot below.

This is a somewhat surprising move by the Nobel Committee, since Barack Obama simply hasn’t had enough time as president to do all that he had set out to accomplish. Twitter (Twitter) is currently overwhelmed with tweets related to the event, and is at times unresponsive, but it’s still holding on.

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