practice (redux)

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, others revel in off color jokes and nitpicking the different ways the iPad will be Apple's biggest mistake ever.

TweetFeel, a sentiment analysis tool that uses tweets as its data set, offers us a snapshot of this darker side of the iPad. 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 see people gush, so let's take a look at how that other 40% breaks down.