Twitter tweets are 40% 'babble'

[lisagurl]

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


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

[tekla]

I'd put the numbers closer to 99.999% vs. .001%.

[Miniar]

...by what definition of "pointless babble"?

This "study" sounds suspect to me.
Not that I think Twitter has a lot of useful information, I jut want my facts, you know, factual.

[fae_reborn]

Twitter is stupid, just another mindless display of the downfall of society.  If it's facts you seek, go to a library and read a book.

Lisa, why do your topics bring out the cynic in me?  I don't get it. 

My two cents. 

[sd]

I'd put the numbers closer to 99.999% vs. .001%.

I agree, and Youtube is no better.

[Britney_413]

Basically Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and YouTube are all crap in my opinion. That isn't to say that some pages and some videos don't have value but that is the extreme minority of content. It is sad that such a valuable resource (world wide web) with such a wealth of information is instead so poorly utilized by the general public. Almost every time I glance at someone in a public place using the internet it is one of those sites and you can tell that none of the content they are viewing requires an IQ above 70 to understand. I'm not here to tell others what to do with their time but I prefer quality vs. quantity. The same is true with discussion boards such as these. Every board I've been on always has members who post thousands and even tens of thousands of posts yet each post often consists of no more than two sentences and they never seem to really say anything. People who want to be mesmorized by "infotainment" are best to be utilizing such pathetic websites. Those of us who prefer to actually learn something and engage in intelligent discussion will actually pick up a book and READ for a change and take the time to actively discuss it in more than just a handful of words.

[tekla]

My primary use of the web is communication, followed by my laptop replacing having to carry all the newspapers and magazines I used to carry with me - not to mention that the highlighting and clipping of articles, and the filing of them is much easier and I look far less crazy doing it on a notebook then I used to doing it for real.

I see some use for some of those things, u-tube has some good rock performances and some good stand-up bits, but copyright is keeping it from being all it could be - as for the rest, I've never seen them except on here.

[Deanna_Renee]

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


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

So is the other 51.3% just "utterly useless crap that doesn't deserve definition"? I would imagine "having value" is a highly subjective category that could easily be replaced by a text message to the one person in the universe that it has value to.