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17-08-2009, 01:39 PM
The study found that only 8.7% of messages could be said to have "value" as they passed along news of interest.
When Pear Analytics started its short-term study, it assumed that most of the tweets would be either spam or self-promotion. This belief, it said, was driven by the growing number of firms starting to use Twitter as a tool to drum up sales.
Instead, it found that 40.5% could be classified as pointless babble, 37.5% as conversational and 8.7% as having pass-along value. Self promotion and spam stood at 5.85% and 3.75% respectively.
Twitter Tweets Article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8204842.stm)
Well I have a Twitter account, but I rarely use it, I just haven't found a reason to use it. I guess my life ain't that interesting for me to want to tell every body about what I'm up to. I mean most of the time I sit on my arse typing at this forum, so most people can see what I'm thinking anyway. The added benefit is there is no character limit.
Most of my thoughts don't have character limits and my writing isn't good enough to be concise enough for Twitter.
Does anyone here Twitter on and on? What do you use it for? And does it work?
When Pear Analytics started its short-term study, it assumed that most of the tweets would be either spam or self-promotion. This belief, it said, was driven by the growing number of firms starting to use Twitter as a tool to drum up sales.
Instead, it found that 40.5% could be classified as pointless babble, 37.5% as conversational and 8.7% as having pass-along value. Self promotion and spam stood at 5.85% and 3.75% respectively.
Twitter Tweets Article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8204842.stm)
Well I have a Twitter account, but I rarely use it, I just haven't found a reason to use it. I guess my life ain't that interesting for me to want to tell every body about what I'm up to. I mean most of the time I sit on my arse typing at this forum, so most people can see what I'm thinking anyway. The added benefit is there is no character limit.
Most of my thoughts don't have character limits and my writing isn't good enough to be concise enough for Twitter.
Does anyone here Twitter on and on? What do you use it for? And does it work?