Sunday 16 August 2009

Research Claims 40% Of Twitter Is 'Pointless Babble'


In a new study conducted by Pear Analytics of San Antonio, Texas, USA, approximately 40% of posts on Twitter can be described as 'pointless babble.' The study sampled the Twitter stream every 30 minutes from 11am to 5pm for 10 days.

Read the entire whitepaper (pdf document) about this research.

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7 comment(s):

Anonymous said...

Have you ever noticed 90% of Research papers are just excess verbiage??

soubriquet said...

I thought it was all pointless babble, just like commenting on web posts is.

Anonymous said...

Listen to most onversations, TV, radio - 40% is to be expected

Rob said...

Yeah, I was going to mention that it's likely that more than 40% of actual, verbal personal interactions are pointless babble too. It's in our nature to chit-chat about trivial nonsense.

Anonymous said...

you mean 60% is isn't nonsense bable ? preposterous

Anonymous said...

Only 40%?

Anonymous said...

39% of that 40% comes from Ashton Krutcher.