However you feel about it, recent events regarding the US operation in Pakistan to neutralise OBL have been all over the news. I ran the day of the announcement through my Twitter sentiment analysis method in an effort to see how people reacted in the UK.
I haven't had a chance to delve into the data properly yet, but I will do so when I have some more time later this week. In the meantime I'll leave you with the sentiment graph to come to your own conclusions (click for a large version):
And for a bit of comparison (until I analyse this properly), here is the sentiment for a random Monday:
