Tweets by Pakistani Sohaib Athar, who wrote about the Abbottabad raid without knowing what it was all about and gained thousands of followers in a matter of hours

Twitterhandle: ReallyVirtual

Bio: An IT consultant taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains with his laptops.

Location: Abbottabad, Lahore, Pakistan

Followers: 19,957

Following: 480

Tweets: 4,430

Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event)

Go away helicopter — before I take out my giant swatter :-/

A huge window shaking bang here in Abbottabad Cantt. I hope it’s not the start of something nasty :-S

all silent after the blast, but a friend heard it 6 km away too… the helicopter is gone too.

seems like my giant swatter worked!

Funny, moving to Abbottabad was part of the ‘being safe’ strategy

Since taliban (probably) don’t have helicpoters, and since they’re saying it was not “ours”, so must be a complicated situation #abbottabad

technically, it is unidentified until identified, and it is a flying object, so year, why the hell not, we have seen weirder stuff

The abbottabad helicopter/UFO was shot down near the Bilal Town area, and there’s report of a flash. People saying it could be a drone

figures, if they have the right to shoot planes flying over the president house, the(y) must have the same instructions for PMA

people are saying it was not a technical fault and it was shot down. I heard it CIRCLE 3-4 times above, sounded purposeful

but it was too noisy to be a spy craft, or, a very poor spy craft it was.

I started noticing the (sic) helicpoter when the noise got irritating

“safer” is a relative term that has lost its meaning in Pakistan

…and now I feel I must apologize to the pilot about the swatter tweets :-/

And now, a plane flying over Abbottabad...

Interesting rumors in the otherwise uneventful Abbottabad air today

Naqvi (Munzir Naqvi)/RT by ReallyVirtual: I think the helicopter crash in Abbottabad, Pakistan and the President Obama breaking news address are connected.

Report from a taxi driver: The army has cordoned off the crash area and is conducting door-to-door search in the surrounding(s)

What really happened doesn’t matter if there is an official story behind it that 99.999% of the world would believe

Another rumor: two copters that followed the crashed one were foreign Cobras — and got away

We should start learning how to spread believable stories and recreate a reality that suits us

…. I just hope they don’t find my giant helicopter swatter. Must hide it :-/

Report from a sweeper: A family also died in the crash, and one of the helicopter riders got away and is now being searched for.

Well, there were at least two copters last night, I heard one but a friend heard two, for 15-20 minutes.

I think I should take out my big blower to blow the fog of war away and see the clearer picture

I guess Abbottabad is going to get as crowded as the Lahore that I left behind for some peace and quiet. *sigh*

RT @ISuckBigTime: Osama Bin Laden killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan.: ISI has confirmed it << Uh oh, there goes the neighborhood :-/

I guess I should unsubscribe from the #abbottabad search on twitter before it kills my machine. Leave Abbottabad alone, Osama and Obama...

Hours later

I need to sleep, but Osama had to pick this day to die :-/

Uh oh, now I’m the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it.

and here come the mails from the mainstream media... *sigh*

And the big question is — now that OBL does not live in Abbottabad, is it open to terrorist attacks too?

People who dream about twitter follower counts need a shrink, seriously

Irony follows me everywhere I go :-/

Interesting, I didn’t think my name would trend on twitter before releasing a couple of rock albums and a few award-winning software....

Bin Laden is dead. I didn’t kill him. Please let me sleep now.