JAN 9TH UPDATE: Today is the last day of Macworld 2009 and opinionated tweets have all but dried up, everybody seems to have expressed their thoughts. My final stats are: 240 tweets checked, 13 positive, 33 negative and the other 194 tweets were just linking/not opinionated. This means of all opinionated tweets 28% are positive, 72% negative – not a good stat for Apple.
ORIGINAL POST:
First thing this morning I went on Twitter to see what Macworld discussions where going on and peoples general thoughts. I made my own tweet and also entered “Macworld” into Twitter Search.
An instant reply came back from my tweet:
I also made my search and went thru the first 4 pages of results to see what everyone was saying. There were:
– 3 Positive Comments
– 12 Negative Comments
The rest of the comments where either; not English or; just linking to coverage and didn’t offer any kind of opinion. Here is a selection of the negative comments:
Here are the 3 positive comments, one of them is positive but only on what the user had heard, she hadn’t actually seen any coverage yet.
Although this is only a small amount of tweets related to Macworld it still gives a good indication of how Twitter users feel about it. Based on this little insight 75% of twitters are posting negative comments, not a good stat for Apple!
PS
Whilst all this Macworld fun goes on spare a thought for those who have to listen to us!
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I don’t understand all of the backlash on the macworld keynote. sure it is not like the last keynote, but how can you top that? I think that they made some really cool improvements to the ilife lineup and in some ingenuitive ways. face recognition is nothing new, but to apply it in iphoto as they did is going to vastly improve the application. I think it i was very creative to offer the lessons from artists in garage band. plus the drm-free itunes should be heralded not slighted. I think that shows that apple is, true to form, listening to the consumers and giving them what they want. You can’t come up with revolutionary hardware every three months, but you can keep from stagnating, which is what they are doing, and with flying colors in my opinion. as a side note, was a a pc user until i recently bought my unibody 13″ macbook, so im not speaking from the angle of a lifelong, die hard, mac fanboy. I just recognize that apple is killing the competition right now.
UPDATE 2HRS AFTER ARTICLE PUBLISHED: I’ve just done another Twitter search to see if the mood is still negative. The results are – 4 Positive Tweets and 13 Negative Tweets. So one more of each. This puts the breakdown at 24% positive and 76% negative. Incredibly close to the first time I searched. There is more of a buzz around people going today so I will wait until it today is over and research more.
JAN 8TH UPDATE: Just searched again. Most tweets are now just linking to stuff, very little opinionated tweets. Of the opinionated ones 3 were positive, 6 were negative. So a split of 33.3% positive to 66.6% negative. Still indicates towards negativity but not really enough figures to use on this occasion to draw a proper conclusion.