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Re: Report: Most Twitter Tweets 'Pointless Babble'
From: David M Chess <chess () us ibm com>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:23:02 -0400
Juha-Matti:
The study itself:
http://www.pearanalytics.com/2009/twitter-study-reveals-interesting-results-about-usage/ Ha, I go "phht" at this "study". Looks to me like it's mostly a disguised advert for "Philtro", and heavily weighted toward concluding that "ZOMG twitter needs filtering!!11!". The "pointless babble" category is basically everything else, after eliminating: - Stuff that might appear on CNN or Fox - Spam - More spam ("self-promotion") - Obvious back-and-forth conversations, and - Things with "RT" in them Which is to say, the sort of stuff that Twitter was basically *designed for* (letting your friends know what you are doing right now) is labelled "pointless babble". Lovely methodology, guys... DC
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