Many Twitter users were giving live real-time updates for the duration of the seige.  One particular pair of tweets included photos purporting to be of the attackers (but later discovered to be Kenyan police forces.)  Those two tweets saw over 80 re-tweets in just under 30 minutes.  After two days, the two twitter posts were removed by law enforcement requests. Between September 21 and 25th, Kenya Police tweeted approximately 570 times while al-Shabaab tweeted about 260 times.  The real takeaway is that an audit by Israeli experts revealed over 67,849 tweets over four days from bystanders may have put the lives of first responders at serious risk. One news site comment by alias “paidpaipa” pointedly exclaimed, “…Assuming each twit took 1 minute to compose and post, then our police (yaani IG Kimaiyo) wasted 569 minutes, and Lenku {current Cabinet Secretary of Kenya} burnt 1533 minutes….2102 minutes in 4 days. That’s a whole 35 hours within the 96 hours the siege lasted. You tell me, how many lives could have been saved if someone was actually in the war room making life saving decisions?”]]>