"Let us not dwell on distance we've fallen short; let us dwell on distance we've travelled,” said Alex Salmond, Scotland’s First Minister and leader of the independence movement at a press conference after accepting the defeat. "I think the process by which we have made our decision as a nation reflects enormous credit upon Scotland. A turnout of 86% is one of the highest of the democratic world, in any election or any referendum in history." The Better Together campaign and the "No" vote resoundingly won Thursday's referendum about whether Scotland should leave the United Kingdom. However, with about 45% of the citizens voting "Yes",  British Prime Minister David Cameron is going to be having a hard time keeping the Scottish MPs happy without giving them more powers and more autonomy.

The result wasn't exactly predicted by social media in the run-up to this week's vote. The official Twitter account for the Yes campaign has an impressive 112,000 followers, more than double that of 43,200 for Better Together. On Facebook, the Yes campaign page again beat out the No campaign page with 334,000 likes compared to 222,000. Being more vociferous online, doesn't always translate into offline results. The hastags #ScotlandDecides and #indyref were trending all throughout the night and in the early hours of the Scottish morning, #ScotlandVotesNo began to trend. Here are other reactions on Twitter.

 

Here is how the Indians reacted on Twitter.



 

Will Texas secessionists be inspired after this?