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Every time Apple holds an event, twitter seems to struggle under the load of the tweets.  This time, twitter is showing us what the load of the tweets looks like during the event.  The chart shows that the announcement of the New iPad comes in a just under 10,000 tweets per minute while the big spikes hit at 10:33 am PST with the announcement of the LTE 4G and then the biggest spike at 10:41am PST with the announcment of…

Many in the media this morning were fooled by the Fake Phil Schiller account saying “Apple won’t be streaming the live event tomorrow”.  While it is a forgone conclusion that this would not happen anyways primarily due to Apple’s recent policy concerning such events, it is surprising that mainstream media outlets including Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, ValueWalk and AppleInsider would be fooled by a twitter account that only had 37 tweets. Fake Account: https://twitter.com/#!/pschiiler/status/177142087869935616 Real Account: https://twitter.com/#!/pschiller Update:  Just after…

Twitter has updated their App for iOS to version 4.1.   The new version moves the App in line with the direction the website has been moving in recent months, adding more functionality including: Swipe shortcut Copy and paste for tweets and profiles Press and hold actions on links in tweet details Font size settings Direct Message improvements Confirmation alert for Find Friends Improved start-up time and general performance improvement Improved image quality in tweet detail Accessibility improvements Profile shows whether…