Royal Wedding Memes & Bin Laden on Twitter – A Roundup

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Like the rest of the world, we’ve been glued to the news the last couple of days. Between the Royal Wedding extravaganza, world-changing news about the death of Osama Bin Laden, and the speculation that Ann Curry will take over Meredith’s Today Show anchor spot, we just can’t get enough. (Wait, none of you are as excited as I am about Ann Curry playing a bigger role in my morning routine? Well then…)

Not only were these major world events (okay, the first two at least) for those of us in the real world, but they had a huge impact on the digital world as well – never before have we seen such staggering social media engagement. In fact, the social media results surrounding these two events have made headlines of their own. Here’s a roundup of our favorites from the last few days.

Royal Wedding

• The Atlantic: Interest in Royal Wedding Breaks Records, Brings Down BBC
• Mashable: Royal Wedding Snapshot: Who Got the Most Buzz? [INFOGRAPHIC]
• Defamer: Princess Beatrice’s Royal Wedding Hat: Birth of a Meme
• Jezebel: Frowning Flower Girl is Royal Wedding’s Breakout Star
• BBC: Royal Wedding: Spot yourself in our hi-def crowd picture
• ZDNet: Royal Wedding: Viewing figures, rise of the memes, and the first Generation Y monarch-to-be

Death of Osama Bin Laden

• TechCrunch: Here’s the guy who unwittingly live-tweeted the raid on Bin Laden
• Mashable: How the Social Web Reflected on Bin Laden’s Death
• Wall Street Journal: Social Media Buzzes, Comes Into Its Own
• Adweek: Osama Bin Laden Dead – And the Story Broke on Twitter
• NY Mag: Why Miley Cyrus’s ‘Party in the U.S.A.’ Became the Osama Bin Laden Death Anthem
• Mashable: Foursquare Users Check in to Post-Osama Bin Laden World
• The Atlantic: Osama Bin Laden’s Compound Already Mapped on Google