10 Twitter pics from the iPad launch

So it was the iPad 3 / iPad HD / “the new iPad” launch yesterday… what, you weren’t in San Francisco? Well, the 755 seats at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts were all filled with journalists. Fortunately for you, they had cameras.

The press has been speculating about the device for months — everything from the name to the display and the release date has been rumoured and then passionately debated. Yesterday was the day, and the journalists wasted no time photographing every detail — and when they got to play with a real life iPad, they yfroged and instagrammed it to pieces.  Here’s what you would have probably tweeted if you were lucky enough to be blessed with an invite.

We’re setting up for our pre-show livestream from the iPad event! yfrog.com/kh2vytnj

— Engadget (@engadget) March 7, 2012

iPhoto for iOS steals the show at the new iPad launch.instagr.am/p/H4evzmOPZg/

— Cool Hunting (@coolhunting) March 7, 2012

New iPad literally called the “new iPad” (photo) twitter.com/CNET/status/17…

— CNET (@CNET) March 7, 2012

Quad core — I called it! twitter.com/JonPhillipsSF/…

— Jon Phillips (@JonPhillipsSF) March 7, 2012

The new iPad – with Retina display #Apple twitter.com/trevorlong/sta… — Trevor Long (@trevorlong) March 7, 2012

Hey, it’s the new iPad! twitter.com/LanceUlanoff/s… — Lance Ulanoff (@LanceUlanoff) March 7, 2012

New standard website looking lovely on the new iPad twitter.com/markprigg/stat…

— Mark Prigg (@markprigg) March 7, 2012

This is what the new iPad looks like, and iPhoto. Feels a little chunkier. #apple twitter.com/jendudley/stat…

— Jen Dudley-Nicholson (@jendudley) March 7, 2012

New iPhoto for iPad lets you create “journals” of your photo excursions. This is what they look like. yfrog.com/oexoiifj

— Drake Martinet (@WithDrake) March 7, 2012

iPhoto’s saturate brush UI is wild vrge.co/yCevbw yfrog.com/h3d2zoaaj

— The Verge (@verge) March 7, 2012