Newseum Website Crashes On News Of Osama bin Laden "Dead"

artwork: People look at a display of newspaper front pages at the Newseum in Washington, Monday, May 2, 2011, on the day after Osama bin Laden was killed. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin.


WASHINGTON (AP) — When big news breaks, newspapers are in demand despite the immediacy of online news. Newspaper across the country including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The News & Advance in Lynchburg, Va., printed extra copies in anticipation of higher demand Monday, when headlines heralded the death of Osama bin Laden. The Newseum site was processing more than 2,800 requests per second when it became overloaded Monday, he said. Traffic started to peak at 3 a.m. Eastern time Monday when Europeans woke to the news. It grew again at about 6 a.m. Newseum even became one of the 10 most-talked about topics on Twitter for a while.

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