When a new, hot product comes out, we usually hear a lot of talk about it. And the amount of this talk can typically measure how popular a product is. Well, what if you could measure how much people were tweeting about a new product? You would get more data, and more accurate numbers to represent how popular the product is. Well, that's exactly what Twitter did; with the iPad 3.
Twitter released this chart today, showing how many tweets with the word "iPad" in them were posted on the day of the iPad event. The results are amazing. Before the event, a moderate number of iPad-related tweets, 1,000 per minute, were being posted. When the event opened, the number rose to 2,500. But during the event, the numbers were huge. The highest spikes, (over 10,000 tweets per minute) were when Tim Cook said "Next-Gen Wireless," and 9 minutes later when he said "Priced at just $499".
