Holy Crap! Study that didn’t need to be done.

As a great man, Dennis Prager, once said. A study either confirms common sense or it is wrong.

Twitter tweets are 40% 'babble'

A short-term study of Twitter has found that 40% of the messages sent via it are "pointless babble."

Carried out by US market research firm Pear Analytics, the study aimed to produce a snapshot of what people do with the service.

Almost as prevalent as the babble were "conversational" tweets that used it as a surrogate instant messaging system.

The study found that only 8.7% of messages could be said to have "value" as they passed along news of interest.

Get out.

Posted under: Miscellaneous, Comedy
Posted on: Monday, August 17, 2009 4:57 PM
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  1. Posted by: Sid on 8/18/2009 9:01 PM
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    Hahaha, thats great! Whats next, a study to see how many words are mispelled and rules of grammar ignored in chat rooms?
  2. Posted by: aloctavodia on 8/24/2009 11:12 PM
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    There is not such think as a study that didn´t need to be done. For you is obvious that 40 % of tweets are 'babble' for some people was obvious that the world is flat, for others was obvious that heat was a fluid...
  3. Posted by: Jeff on 11/6/2009 3:57 PM
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    Speaking for myself, I have no inclination to participate in a social networking service where the creators took as their metaphor a flock of birds perched in a tree or on a wire, engaged in mindless chatter. I suppose this study reveals that there are a few others who share my sentiment. It also reveals the power of the self-fulfilling prophecy: As the creators of 'Twitter' conceived their userbase, that is in large part what they managed to attract.

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