Monday, August 17, 2009

Pointless Babble on Twitter

A recent study carried out on Twitter tweets carried out by Pear Analytics, reports that 40% of the tweets on Twitter are pointless babble, where they tell people illuminations such as "I'm eating a sandwich now" Only 9% of the tweets were categorized as having pass-along value.

Hear! Hear!

Twitter can be a valuable source of information, but it can be difficult to wade through all the babble to find it. Hopefully this evolves. Here's a good report on the Study.

2 comments:

Mark Rooney said...

Hey Ger, the link you provided goes to an article on email violations.

You may like these graphical representations of Twitter data, one of which breaks down the high/low value of tweets:
http://mashable.com/2009/08/17/twitter-100/

Mashable is pretty good, I follow them on....(drum roll)....Twitter.

Gerald Trites said...

oops, wrong link. Thanks Mark. I fixed it.