I just did a search for "iPhone" on Summize, the Twitter search engine, and was given a page of the 15 most recent "iPhone" tweets. All 15 of them had been sent "less than ten seconds ago."
Click the link yourself and you're likely to find the same, with maybe a few 20-second-ago tweets if you hit a slow moment.
There was so much iPhone noise that some people said Twitter was strategically limiting extra services just to stay online for the whole speech.
Most of the chatter is repetitive declarations of joy, impending purchase, or disappointment.
"I am so going to get the new 3G iPhone," said one guy. "Already got [J]uly 11th off," agreed another. "Oh yes I will go get one," said a third, and a fourth declared that he was "salivating," and a fifth, "drooling."
And these tweets were all within about 2 minutes of one another.
When one Twitterer asked when the new iPhone was being announced, I couldn't tell if she was joking. Thankfully, looks like she was.
I get it that the iPhone is neat and even an important part of the digital communications revolution -- but my goodness -- isn't there anything else to be excited about? You'd think Steve Jobs had just announced the release of the iTimeMachine or iTelepathy or iUniversalHealthCare.
For instance, check out a Summize search for Iraq -- some of the newest tweets are three hours old. Maybe Iraq would get more attention if they renamed it iRaq...
Whaddya think, Steve?
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Pop superstar MADONNA was reportedly furious after a camera crew sneaked into her hotel room during her stay in Cannes, France.
The singer was in the region for the Cannes International Film Festival last week (beg19May08) and booked into a suite at the city's plush Carlton Intercontinental Hotel.
But Madonna was angered when footage of her hotel room appeared on French television after a TV crew apparently sneaked past security during her stay and filmed her suite - showing the specially provided purified water and gym equipment she had requested.
According to French newspaper Le Parisien, Madonna was so angry with the hotel staff, she refused to pay the $90,000 (GBP45,000) bill.
Actor HUGH GRANT and his ex-girlfriend ELIZABETH HURLEY have won $116,000 (GBP58,000) in damages for invasion of privacy, after they were photographed on holiday in a private resort in the Maldives.
Grant, model Hurley and her businessman husband Arun Nayar filed suit against photo agencies Big Pictures (U.K.) Limited and Eliot Press SARL last year (07), when snaps of the trio on holiday were published in a number of British newspapers.
Laura Tyler, the lawyer representing Grant, Hurley and Nayar, appeared at London's High Court on Thursday morning (15May08), when she told Mr Justice Eady that the pictures had been taken covertly and without her clients' knowledge. She also argued that the claimants had chosen the resort because it offered them complete privacy and seclusion.
She told the court: "It has been most upsetting for the claimants to have their privacy invaded by these defendants."
The photos were later printed in the News of the World and The Mail on Sunday newspapers, as well as a number of celebrity magazines.
In addition to the cash for damages, the claimants will receive some money towards their legal costs from the two photo agencies, and agency bosses apologised for any distress their actions may have caused.
Further contributions will also be made by the News of the World's publisher News Group Newspapers, and Associated Newspapers, which prints The Mail on Sunday.
