Here are the most significant tweets mentioning @TheIPaper from the last 24 hours. Larger icons indicate greater significance (hence the size of tweets from @TheIPaper, which have seen a high level of engagement).

For a visualisation of all of our followers and the conversations they’re having about TheIPaper, try Social Collider; enter theipaper in the text box and history length 1 week. It works much better in Crome than any other browser.

Mapping our first 1000 followers by  location (as listed on their Twitter biog)…

Followers 1001-2000…

Followers 2001-3000…

I’ll keep my thoughts on the iffy philosophy behind the iPad to a later post. Restricting myself to the device in practice though, it’s hard to find faults. It’s fast – as fast as the adverts everyone’s seen by now, both in the rotation of the screen when turned on its side, and in opening and running applications. The onboard version of Safari renders pages quickly and with few glitches, save for the fact that it doesn’t display Flash, and apps like YouTube and Maps show that for all the talk of the burgeoning conflict between Google and Apple, the Mountain View-based search giant is still happy to provide Apple product owners with some fantastic software.

I’ve not had chance to do a full road test on the iPad, though. My interactions with the device described variously as a ‘game changer’ and ‘the future of computing’ have been limited to a half-hour play in the office canteen, with a unit brought in by Kelkoo’s International VP Bruce Fair, to trumpet their distribution of the iPad whenever it comes out. I didn’t have time for the lull in enthusiasm that apparently comes after first using with the device, never mind get through it in the way described in Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger‘s sober video review.

But I did have it long enough to feel its restrictions, largely because they are achingly apparent in almost any of the areas using the device involves. I’ll post some more thoughts on that later, but for now it’s worth waiting to see what comes of the announcement of the new iPhone OS tomorrow, and whether those developments will be pushed retroactively to the 300,000+ iPads already sold in the US.

Camden Crawl, Camden, London

Arctic Monkeys, Royal Albert Hall

The Invisible, The Borderline

Ok Go, Shepherd’s Bush Empire

Caught in the Net: Rise of Rose and LoneLady

Caitlin Rose: 2010′s honky tonk heroine

Field Music, Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen

Jamie Thraves: The art of the music video

Rachid Taha, Royal Festival Hall

Mika, The Roundhouse

More…

Twitter – Facebook – Foursquare

Hype Machine – Reddit – Digg

TheSixtyOne – LJ – Google Buzz

Email: jackodriley [at] gmail.com [personal]

j.riley [at] independent.co.uk [professional]

Google’s Android invasion

Gaming’s quiet revolution

Getting lonely on the Wave

At last, the web goes truly worldwide

Review: Motorola Milestone

MySpace Music launches: Users ask, “Who is Mick Jagure?”

With this patent application, Apple risks losing its shine

More…

Camden Crawl is not far off now, and as part of our extended coverage of the event (which includes a ticket giveaway, here), we’ve interviewed panel members for the event. First up is Sean Forbes of iconic music shop Rough Trade, to be followed by  Simon Raymonde of Bella Union and finally Orlena Yeung, VP Brand & Product at online music phenomenon Last.fm. If you’re as sick of the budget as everyone else is, read it as a quick distraction, and remember tickets for the event, which features such accomplished performers as Teenage Fanclub, Delays, The Drums, New Young Pony Club, Lightspeed Champion and many more, are still available.

Which bands are you looking forward to most at this year’s event?

Young Marble Giants – First gig in London in 29 years and 32 days
Best Coast – The best new band America has to offer
Veronica Falls – The best new band England has to offer

Are there any Camden Crawl venues you have a special affection for?

Koko – I saw my third ever gig there when I was a wee nipper – it was called the music machine then. And just in case you were interested it was by the UK subs

3. Any Camden venues you really dislike?

The Electric Ballroom – it smells of goths

4. Any Rough Trade favourites playing at the event?

Well, it seems only appropriate that the Young Marble Giants are playing the Rough Trade stage as the Rough Trade label released their one and only proper album ‘Colossal Youth’. Also we totally love Surfer Blood at the shop. The album is on heavy rotation everyday. You can’t help but love Surfer Blood.

5. How do you think 2010 is shaping up as a year for new music in general?

it’s a great year so far – lots of interesting records already – check into Harper Simon, Cours Lapin, Voice of the Seven Thunders, Gill Scott-Heron, Joanna Newsom, Caitlin Rose, Broken Bells, etc…