Virtual world celebratesa real win

From YouTube to Flickr, from Facebook to Twitter, images and sentiments from celebrations across the US flooded into the Internet's media-sharing sites, just moments after Barack Obama clinched the presidential election.

Some were simple photos of TV screens claiming the Democrat's win. Others were unfiltered images of jubilant celebrations captured immediately after polls closed on Tuesday on the West Coast, when Obama was declared the president-elect.

And while crowds gathered at public rallies and millions of others simply glued themselves to television news coverage, many spent election night online, and they had plenty of company. Students at Navarro College in Texas posted a video of themselves reacting, screaming, jumping up and down, more screaming, to Obama's win. Another YouTuber uploaded his toast to Obama: He gulped a 2-liter bottle of soda.