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**Chris** · 18-08-2009, 17:01

It's not stupid at all. The only statistically valid way to assess the entire contents of the twitter tweet stream is to randomly sample it.

And what exactly is the 'true' usage of Twitter? Obviously you think it's people like Stephen Fry and those who follow him, but how is that the 'true' usage if Fry's tweets and people's replies to them constitute only a tiny fraction of the whole?

The 'true' usage is the entirety of what it is used for, warts and all.

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Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,275	Re: Move Along Now, Nothing to Read Here It's not stupid at all. The only statistically valid way to assess the entire contents of the twitter tweet stream is to randomly sample it. And what exactly is the 'true' usage of Twitter? Obviously you think it's people like Stephen Fry and those who follow him, but how is that the 'true' usage if Fry's tweets and people's replies to them constitute only a tiny fraction of the whole? The 'true' usage is the entirety of what it is used for, warts and all.