It should come as no surprise that the Twittersphere was (and still is) all a-buzz about the iPad -- the build-up to which has been months in the making -- but the iPad averaging nearly 3,000 tweets per minute in the first hour is just plain remarkable. We haven't seen anything like it in recent history. According to Trendrr, tweets did taper off a bit after that first hour, but are still coming at about 75,000 per hour, or 1,000 per minute.
As you can see from the chart below, there was an instantaneous and incredible spike of tweets mentioning the iPad as soon as the name was revealed earlier this morning. The second chart highlights the disparity between "iPad" and "Apple" tweets.
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