Netizens mourn Steve Jobs or refresh Twitter records

According to foreign media reports, Australian social media tracking and Investigation Agency sr7 said on Thursday that Apple founder Steve Jobs) the sudden death of the world caused a large number of Internet mourning activities for netizens. The scale of the network mourning activity may set a new record.

Many netizens expressed their condolences to Steve Jobs through social networking websites, and some websites were inaccessible due to excessive access traffic. Five of the top 10 hot topics on Twitter are about Steve Jobs, such as "Thank you, Steve Jobs" and "I am sad" (isad. In addition, the two slogans "think different" and "Stay hungry" previously put forward by Steve Jobs have become a hot topic among Internet users. Because the traffic was too large, Twitter websites were once unable to log on.

Some social media analysts said that the death of Steve Jobs may become the topic that has been most talked about on the internet ever. Sr7 expects that the number of messages sent by Twitter users per second has reached 10 thousand, and may continue to increase.

Peter Fraser, co-founder of sr7, said: "The mourning activity for Steve Jobs by netizens may exceed the social media interaction level at any time, especially on Twitter, the number of messages sent by the user per second may exceed 10 thousand. We are still waiting for the official release of Twitter data, but since the release of Steve Jobs's resignation message, we can see from the data on the day we monitored that this Internet mourning event will certainly set a new record ."

Fraser said that the death of Steve Jobs caused an extraordinary scale of Internet mourning activities for netizens. Many famous people, politicians and other influential figures have sent messages to mourn Steve Jobs, these people have many followers on social networking websites. The messages they send have received much attention from netizens, which has triggered such large-scale cross-platform interaction.

Fraser also believes that the message of Steve Jobs's death was announced late at night in the United States, so when the message spread around the world, it will cause heated discussion among more netizens.