The death of Osama Bin Laden has been the biggest news this week to hit the internet and arguably, the world. Social media has played a significant role in how people have come to terms with the news.

Mashable reports that 31% of people found out about his death via Twitter and 20% via Facebook, with 12.4 million tweets per hour around the time of Bin Laden's death. The reaction of this event on social media has exploded with 442,000 likes on 'Osama Bin Laden is Dead' Facebook page, Bin Laden queries up 98,550% on Yahoo and 13,000+ uploads on Youtube to spread the news. Jolie O'Dell of Mashable writes: "What a difference 10 years make. In the past 24 hours, a resource we didn’t even have a decade ago has become a primary medium — not only for finding out about important news but also for sharing it and reacting to it."

The White House have not released pictures of his body but have uploaded various pictures of President Obama and his team observing the operation. Mashable reports that some of the pictures had 600,000+ views in their first hour of release. You can view some of the pictures here.

A video has been released by The White House with President Obama explaining the whole situation and chain of events around Osama Bin Laden's death. The video clip has already had over 5.4million views on Youtube in the 8 days it has been released. I have embedded the video clip below.

How did you find out about Osama Bin Laden's death? I would love to hear if social media has affected your thoughts about the whole operation.