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That comes as a surprise to some people? Hello?
Forty percent of the messages on Twitter are “pointless babble” along the lines of “I am eating a sandwich now,” according to a study conducted by a US market research firm.
Pear Analytics, based in San Antonio, Texas, said that it randomly sampled 2,000 messages from the public stream of Twitter and separated them into six categories.
The categories were: news, spam, self-promotion, pointless babble, conversational and pass-along value.
Pear said “pointless babble” accounted for 811 “tweets” or 40.55 percent of the total number of messages sampled.
Where has this guy been? They needed a study to determine this?! I hope it wasn’t taxpayer funded! Because ALL you have to do is watch the Twitter tutorial video produced by the Twitter folks, and it’s a NO BRAINER. Twitter was created to be a mindless bastion of meaningless, frivolous banter.
Holy cow, just wait til Twitter ads come out in full force…. you guys ain’t seen nothing yet. :blink:
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I suffer from more of the spam tweets. For example, I added ZigZiglarQuotes to my Tweets. At first, I saw good quotes with an occasional spam link to go to his money making site. But more and more I was told how I can make money with .ws sites. I finally deleted him.
As a HR Recruiter, there has also been a lot of articles on how we, as recruiters can get Twitter followers to spam out our jobs. I find this to be useless. I would rather see, “I am sitting on the patio.” At least that will make me giggle. All this, MAKE MONEY NOW crapola is getting ridiculous.
I agree, once all these companies start paying Twitter to advertise, I will be deleting that too.
Sooner or later, MySpace won’t be so terrible anymore. :cwazy:
LMAO I wonder who the genius was that commissioned such a study. My 82 year old completely computer-illiterate mother in law would have been able to figure that one out.
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LOL Yep! And I fit in that 40% range AND also because of the meaningless is why I’ve nearly quit using it.
But……. the instructions for twitter does say, “Tweet what your doing”.
Getting something to drink, music your listening to, going to the bathroom, store, etc…. LOL
And mostly I get tired of talking to myself and no one bothering to listen. They don’t want to follow me because what I may or may not have to say, It’s all a numbers game to people now. And I won’t even touch the ads getting tweeted these days. lol
I see that everyone is in agreement. I really hate the Twitter ads, the make money schemes, and the CONSTANT “whiten your teeth on 5 minutes” tweets. And Chilly, I feel the same way about talking to oneself. I’d like to have conversations, but it’s like everything I say is swallowed up into this vast nothingness of mindless blabber.
Yeah, Twitter was touted as a way to communicate the “in between” little bits of information that were not important enough to send via email or publish on a blog. But it’s really become cluttered with ads, spam links, and various junk. I like the small conversationalist aspect of it.