Normal people on the Internet would still rather talk about the World Cup or President Obama, it seems.
According to data we've just received from social sharing service AddThis, the USA soccer win and Obama's decision to accept the resignation of one of his top generals are still much more newsworthy than a phone of any kind. AddThis integrates data from almost 300 services around the web, including Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, Digg and a plethora of blogging platforms.
Take a look at these graphs, which show a significantly higher number of shares for those two topics over the iPhone 4. The first image shows the number of shares through June 23, and the second shows social media activity over a period from June 11 to June 23.
Clearly, the iPhone 4 is just one fish in the greater sea of online content, and a rather small one at that.