All of social media was abuzz today with news of the new iPhone. In fact, the new iPhone, iPhone 4, generated 30,000 mentions just today (data collected between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. PST).
Steve Jobs in his keynote announced several groundbreaking features and applications for the new iPhone. I measured the most salient features to see how they stacked up against each other, and this is what I got:
As you can see, FaceTime was by far the most popular topic, followed by discussion of the operating system iOs4 and the great new bi-directional camera with a flash (finally!)
Overall, of all people who expressed emotion about the new iPhone, most had positive things to say about the device:
To zero in on specific phrases, I tracked the most frequently occurring phrases associated with the iPhone 4.
As you can see, the main phrases that occurred were: video, FaceTime, AT&T’s fail during the keynote, WWDC keynote address, iOS4, iMovie. And as far as emotions towards it, people seem to think it’s “amazing”. I will be tracking these numbers as they change throughout the next couple of days, and if any significant changes occur, will note it in a follow up post.
