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A friend recently admitted a favorite past time of his – watching plane crashes on YouTube. Planes crashing, helicopters twirling out of control, boats sinking – all are fair game. For a lot of people, this has been the story of the iPad over the past few days. While some of us take the higher ground<\/a>, others revel in off-color jokes<\/a> and nitpicking the different ways<\/a> the iPad will be Apple’s biggest mistake ever. <\/p>\nTweetFeel<\/a>, a sentiment analysis tool that uses tweets as its data set, offers us a snapshot of this darker side of the iPad<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sponsor<\/em> According to an email from Andres Burgos, the project lead for TweetFeel, the company collected almost a half a million tweets since Steve Jobs took the stage on Wednesday, “cleaned the hell out of them and scored about 40,000″ and found an overall positive sentiment, hovering at around 60%. But this isn’t the fun part. Nobody wants to watch people gush, so let’s take a look at how that other 40% breaks down. <\/p>\n Some good news for Apple might be that a solid 38% of the negative has only to do with making fun of the name “iPad”, something even potential customers might find themselves doing because it’s just too easy. <\/p>\n After that, however, the biggest section of tweets complained that the iPad is merely a larger version of the iTouch or iPod. This could be a bit more serious, as it shows that people don’t see the iPad as fulfilling a need. From here, we have the final 35%, with the lack of a camera<\/a> and flash<\/a> running neck in neck. The inability to multitask and potential network problems round up the Twitterverse’s displeasure with the device. <\/p>\n We think it’s this last 35% that really has some substance, as we’ve seen a number of articles<\/a> focusing on these very points<\/a>. <\/p>\n When it comes to that positive side, that 60% majority, however, Burgos said the sentiment becomes quite simple and the news for Apple is certainly good.<\/p>\n “The positive tweets are mostly folks saying things like ‘It’s awesome’ [and] ‘I want one’,” he wrote. “When looking at Apple products, the positive responses are usually very ‘Koolaid-esque’ meaning they don’t really say why they like it but just that they do..and they want.”<\/p>\n Discuss<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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