A New York-based startup, called SocialFlow, has published an interesting visual look at how the news of Osama bin Laden’s killing started off and spread on micro-blogging site Twitter.

The news of terrorist outfit Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden’s killing spread at a lightening speed via Twitter, even before the formal announcement of the occurrence.

Keith Urbahn, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s chief of staff, started the bin Laden Twitter storm on Sunday at 10:25 EST with a tweet stating, "So I'm told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn."

According to SocialFlow, Ubahn's tweet triggered 80 retweets within one minute, including one tweet from New York Times reporter Brian Stelter.

Hundreds of Stelter's 50,000 followers retweeted him. Merely two minutes later, over 300 people retweeted Urbahn's tweet.

US President Obama finally confirmed the killing of Osama bin Laden’s in his speech at 11:30 p. m. EST.

SocialFlow concluded that Urbahn was not the first to cogitate on Al-Qaeda leader, but he was the one who achieved the most trust from the network.