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Most Tweets are pointless babble, says study
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article published on 14 August, 2009
A new study, conducted by Pear Analytics, has revealed that most of the Tweets written on Twitter are "pointless babble."
The study placed Tweets into six categories, pointless babble, conversational, pass-along value, spam, news and self-promotion and found that most Tweets fell into the first category.
"Mostly many people still perceive Twitter as just mindless babble of people telling ... [ read the full article ]
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14. August 2009 @ 03:04 |
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It took these people a study what only takes most people to use their common sense to figure out.
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SSSJDanny
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14. August 2009 @ 03:18 |
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Originally posted by mike.m:
It took these people a study what only takes most people to use their common sense to figure out.
ROFL True. I think people that tweet, are mostly attention whores.
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14. August 2009 @ 03:55 |
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It took these people a study what only takes most people to use their common sense to figure out.
ROFL True. I think people that tweet, are mostly attention whores.
While this is true, I know many people who use it to keep in touch with each other. It's pretty handy for that.
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14. August 2009 @ 04:25 |
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Originally posted by mike.m:
It took these people a study what only takes most people to use their common sense to figure out.
ROFL True. I think people that tweet, are mostly attention whores.
While this is true, I know many people who use it to keep in touch with each other. It's pretty handy for that.
Errr i know what else is handy for that.. email, or if you want to go more casual than that, Facebook?!
You then have the choice of posting on your wall, posting on their wall, a private message, or instant messaging if they are online.. And you can see all their pics and video's, and everyone's on it. Seriously, why would you use twitter?!
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14. August 2009 @ 05:42 |
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i twitter for sports, news, music and jokes... you get all that in one page, instantly! ofcourse you can do that by going to msn or something like that, but you cannot be selective. you can twitter youre favorite band, rapper, sport team, player, local news etc... kinda neat i think.
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14. August 2009 @ 07:11 |
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The world needs more zippy after all!!
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14. August 2009 @ 08:08 |
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but you gotta hate seeing all that lovey crap on there. "i think he wants me to be his wifey." "im on a journey" bla bla bla
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14. August 2009 @ 11:03 |
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Twitter is heaven for advertisers for sure. Or any company that needs to know what people's days consist of step by step.
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14. August 2009 @ 11:23 |
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Myspace, Facebook, Twitter....of course its pointless babble, thats the point.
So I guess they spent 7 million dollars with this study?
EDIT* I dont't know why I said 7 million...it was just a number that popped up in my head :P I meant millions, lol
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14. August 2009 @ 11:37 |
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Originally posted by mike.m:
It took these people a study what only takes most people to use their common sense to figure out.
In fairness to Pear Analytics they apparently only decided to do this study after their funding to find out whether water is wet ran out.
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14. August 2009 @ 11:51 |
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My wife and I swore never to go on twitter or facebook. Anything that involves Ashton Butcher as the poster boy is probably a waste of time.
My wife finally broke down when she realized that networking via that medium might help her out with her business. It's been amazing for her. Her business is exploding and she is meeting so many contacts all over the country. She has people following her and offering her professional marketing and photography services in exchange for other services to promote their business.
Tweeting is useless for someone like me and I hate the idea of facebook, but I've seen the potential and power of these services first hand.
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14. August 2009 @ 13:54 |
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Originally posted by emugamer:
My wife and I swore never to go on twitter or facebook. Anything that involves Ashton Butcher as the poster boy is probably a waste of time.
My wife finally broke down when she realized that networking via that medium might help her out with her business. It's been amazing for her. Her business is exploding and she is meeting so many contacts all over the country. She has people following her and offering her professional marketing and photography services in exchange for other services to promote their business.
Tweeting is useless for someone like me and I hate the idea of facebook, but I've seen the potential and power of these services first hand.
Has your wife tried LinkedIn? I think that one is more for professionals, she might get even better results, who knows?
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14. August 2009 @ 13:57 |
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Most Tweets are "pointless babble," says pointless study
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14. August 2009 @ 15:20 |
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My wife and I swore never to go on twitter or facebook. Anything that involves Ashton Butcher as the poster boy is probably a waste of time.
My wife finally broke down when she realized that networking via that medium might help her out with her business. It's been amazing for her. Her business is exploding and she is meeting so many contacts all over the country. She has people following her and offering her professional marketing and photography services in exchange for other services to promote their business.
Tweeting is useless for someone like me and I hate the idea of facebook, but I've seen the potential and power of these services first hand.
Has your wife tried LinkedIn? I think that one is more for professionals, she might get even better results, who knows?
Not sure if LinkedIn would be for her. She's not trying to get a job and she's not looking to hire people. She's not a professional in a specific field per say...she's an entrepreneur. I'm on LinkedIn, and primarily use it to connect with people who work in my field and keep my professional profile updated. Even so, her business is already growing faster than she expected. She's not really ready for any better results. It would be biting off more than she can chew.
Her business relies on constant social interaction and networking, and Twitter provides just what she's been needing.
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14. August 2009 @ 20:40 |
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taking a crap
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14. August 2009 @ 21:39 |
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Originally posted by mike.m:
It took these people a study what only takes most people to use their common sense to figure out.
So true. I signed up for Twitter to see what all the news what about. I really found it to be useless. Especially since other networking sites allow you to share a lot more than a simple *tweet*.
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15. August 2009 @ 14:09 |
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I guess there is a reason that they call people that use Twitter Twits!
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15. August 2009 @ 15:07 |
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You won't (ever) catch me on sites such as My(waste-of)space/Lamespace, Face(palm)book, Twit-ter(d) or any of those other lame sites.
Only the youth of today's society could come up with/appreciate such utter pointless pap that is social networking. The only thing i will tolerate is Instant Messaging and IRC because at least you can speak to real people ie your own friends that way, anything else is utter pointless time-wasting mind-numbing brain-cell-destroying crap.
And anyone posting in this News item saying they actually like these kind of social networking sites deserve to be banned :) :)
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15. August 2009 @ 15:09 |
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Originally posted by creaky:
You won't (ever) catch me on sites such as My(waste-of)space/Lamespace, Face(palm)book, Twit-ter(d) or any of those other lame sites.
Only the youth of today's society could come up with/appreciate such utter pointless pap that is social networking. The only thing i will tolerate is Instant Messaging and IRC because at least you can speak to real people ie your own friends that way, anything else is utter pointless time-wasting mind-numbing brain-cell-destroying crap.
That just shows you how old you are, you need to relax and stalk...er....enjoy today's youth...er..... culture...er.....youth culture....... hehehehehe :P
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15. August 2009 @ 15:13 |
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Hehe i know i must be an old fart to comment the way i did, but stuff like this just wouldn't have happened "in my day", you'd have got a good kicking back then for coming up with such useless ideas. Only in the 21st Century eh :p
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15. August 2009 @ 15:18 |
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Originally posted by creaky:
Hehe i know i must be an old fart to comment the way i did, but stuff like this just wouldn't have happened "in my day", you'd have got a good kicking back then for coming up with such useless ideas. Only in the 21st Century eh :p
meh the less modern stuff you know the better off you seem to be. 0-o
I got a myspace page because I was in between free web site crap, I got a face book page so I can ignore it and got on twitter just to see what the fuss is about a reverse IM thingy is about.
Frankly if someone stream like a news ticker/feed to make it really easy to post blurbs and links and then add the ability to easily add sites,ect it would be alot more useful.....
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15. August 2009 @ 22:48 |
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What i find really pontless is the fact that they needed to do a study to figure out that tweeter is a pointless addictive hobby like Facebook is.
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16. August 2009 @ 14:46 |
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Originally posted by creaky:
You won't (ever) catch me on sites such as My(waste-of)space/Lamespace, Face(palm)book, Twit-ter(d) or any of those other lame sites.
Only the youth of today's society could come up with/appreciate such utter pointless pap that is social networking. The only thing i will tolerate is Instant Messaging and IRC because at least you can speak to real people ie your own friends that way, anything else is utter pointless time-wasting mind-numbing brain-cell-destroying crap.
And anyone posting in this News item saying they actually like these kind of social networking sites deserve to be banned :) :)
I'd have to agree for the most part, though I do have a facebook which is only used to track down old friends none of that "LOL BRB I'MA DOIN THE DISHES".
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16. August 2009 @ 16:13 |
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Originally posted by creaky:
You won't (ever) catch me on sites such as My(waste-of)space/Lamespace, Face(palm)book, Twit-ter(d) or any of those other lame sites.
Only the youth of today's society could come up with/appreciate such utter pointless pap that is social networking. The only thing i will tolerate is Instant Messaging and IRC because at least you can speak to real people ie your own friends that way, anything else is utter pointless time-wasting mind-numbing brain-cell-destroying crap.
And anyone posting in this News item saying they actually like these kind of social networking sites deserve to be banned :) :)
Finally, I've found someone who thinks alike! They're all piles of junk that have no common purpose... I can't see any potential in any of these sites.
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16. August 2009 @ 16:40 |
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Originally posted by creaky:
Hehe i know i must be an old fart to comment the way i did, but stuff like this just wouldn't have happened "in my day", you'd have got a good kicking back then for coming up with such useless ideas. Only in the 21st Century eh :p
hah.like me you appear to have become your father.LMAO
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