Study: Quarter of tweets not worth reading

[Pheran]

This study must be flawed because I'm pretty sure 99% of tweets are not worth reading. :hmm:

Quarter of Tweets Not Worth Reading, Twitter Users Tell Researchers

Twitter users choose the microblogs they follow, but that doesn't mean they always like what they get. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Georgia Institute of Technology found that users say only a little more than a third of the tweets they receive are worthwhile.

Other tweets are either so-so or, in one out of four cases, not worth reading at all.

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[FoBoT]

 

[kranky]

Probably some bias in that number, since you'd look like an idiot if you said you follow people who make worthless tweets 90% of the time. Nobody would admit to a number that high. Why would you be following someone who wastes that much of your time?

#somethingsupposedtogohereprobably

 

[Anubis]

25% is 75% too low

 

[vi edit]

And in related news, over 42% of all studies are things that we already knew.

 

[A Casual Fitz]

It can be fun to follow certain people on twitter.

 

[dud]

25% is 75% too low

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