Steve Jobs made more than 4.5 millions of mentions in the social networks in less than 12 hours.

The death of the co-founder of Apple Steve Jobs, in the last Wednesday night (10/6) made a commotion in the internet users and made 4.5 million mentions, with the exactly mention of “Steve Jobs” in the first 12 hours of the announcement of his death.

In the first minutes after Apple has informed about the death of Steve Jobs, the internet was invaded with thanks from all type of person all over the world. The tag #iSad already passed 62 thousand of mentions and the expressions #iThankYou, #iThankYouSteve,  #ThankYouStev passed 300 thousand post on Twitter.

The Barack Obama announcement also makes a big commotion and attracted a lot of comment on Twitter and obtained more than 10 thousand replies. “He transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: he changed the way each of us sees the world”.

On Facebook who attract more attention with the comment was Mark Zuckerberg, that reached the amazing number of 289.172 ‘liked’ and it was shared by 21.305 users.  “Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. I will miss you.”

My opinion about the story.

I think that type of commotion with the death of one of the founder’s of Apple was more than expect. We can actually say that Steve Jobs changed the world and reinvented the way that people think and do their work.  He also have a impact in our childhood when he worked with the Pixar studios changed the film industry forever.We will certainly miss him and all his inventions.  The only thing that we can do now, is exactly what this internet users are doing, find a way to thanks this extraordinary man for all he have done for us.