According to foreign media reports, Sysomos, a social media data analyst, said this week that Twitter users posted as many as 2.5 million jobs-related information within 13 hours of the death of Steve Jobs.
Schelden Levin Sheldon Levine, Sysomos's community manager, said that after Apple chief executive Tim Cook posted a statement about the death of Steve Jobs October 5 7:55 P.M. (7:55 A.M. October 6), the company's CEO He began tracking the amount of information sent by Twitter users from the eastern time of October 5 8:30 P.M. (Beijing time October 6 8:30 A.M.).
Soon after Mr. Jobs died, Levin said, the information related to Steve Jobs became the main web content: The number of blogs related to jobs had reached 1081, the number of related online news had reached 1790, and the number of forum posts had reached 618. The number of messages sent by Twitter users reached 249,042.
As of October 5 9:30 P.M. (Beijing time October 6 9:30 A.M.), the entire web world was dominated by stories about Jobs ' death, and at the eastern time of the United States October 6 9:30 A.M. (Beijing time October 6 9:30 P.M.) The number of messages sent by Twitter users related to the death of Mr. Jobs has reached as much as 2.5 million, with the number of bloggers reaching 13,611 and the number of related news reaching 33,484.
Twitter also tracks information related to other important events, and the site has yet to comment on the above issues. In addition, Twitter has not published specific statistics on its corporate blog. But after Mr. Jobs died, Twitter also released its official account, "Thank you, Jobs!" Such a message.