Re: Report: Most Twitter Tweets 'Pointless Babble'

[David M Chess <chess () us ibm com>]

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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