Babbles make most tweets ?

A study found that over 40% of tweets fall in the “pointless babble” category.

• 40.55 percent were “pointless babble,” which were defined as the “I am eating a sandwich now” tweets.”
• 37.55 percent were “conversational,” or “tweets that go back and forth between folks, almost in an instant message fashion, as well as tweets that attempt to engage followers in conversation, such as questions or polls.”
• 8.7 percent had “pass along value,” the tweets that are re-tweets passed along from member to member.
• 5.85 percent were “self promotion,” messages about companies, products or services.
• 3.75 percent were spam, the “See how I got 3,000 followers in one day” tweets.
• 3.60 percent were news from mainstream national media outlets such as CNN or Fox.

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