The announcement of the iPad measured in ... tweets!

Twitter released the above diagram which shows substantially the number of tweets per minute during the presentation of the new iPad.


Specifically, the company counted all the tweets from 8 am to 2 pm (local time) which contained the word 'iPad' to them. As you can see you as we approach the start of the event (10am local time) the number of tweets and begin growing.


The climax comes at 10:41 a.m. when Tim Cook announced that the new iPad will be priced the same as the previous ones, ie $ 499.


Other places where we had significant increases are 10:33 a.m. to announcing the support of next generation networks, 11:21 a.m. to announcing the simultaneous availability of iPad 2 at $ 399 and 11:25 a.m. and ended when the event.

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