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Originally Posted by Damien
It's like saying the Internet is mostly rubbish. While it may be technically true it is not a valid way of looking at it because the rubbish does not get attention while the good does.
The consistent twitter users usually following interesting people. I follow Stephen Fry, a few other celebrities whom I find interesting and a few famous/influential programmers who tweet relevant and interesting information.
I don't subscribe to Joe-whats-his-name who posts this daily activities for none to see. I would bet that few people subscribe to these tweets.700,000 people subscribe to Stephen Fry. No one follows random people posting random content.
Which is why the study is pointless, they should follow the content that is getting seen rather than randomly pick out content from anywhere.
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Actually the internet is mostly pr0n ... apparently.
Most of the rest of it is rubbish. Most of what's not rubbish is on Cable Forum.
Look, I can see this study has offended you in some way. Clearly you're a big Twitter fan. But you need to take a step back and look at what it's actually saying. They're not claiming that Twitter is of no use or should be taken offline. They are simply observing that
most tweets are pointless. What you then do with that information is up to you, but there is absolutely nothing invalid about this study, regardless of how much you wish they hadn't done it.
For example, one of the justifications the BBC seems to be offering for its seemingly endless coverage of Twitter (especially in the dotlife blog) is the massive popularity Twitter enjoys. If a lot of people use it, so the argument goes, then it's something a major news organisation should devote coverage to. However, if it transpires that only a small fraction of tweets are of any worth, when measured by a reasonable set of values, that calls into question all the hype the service is currently getting. Exactly how useful
is Twitter, beyond a few very rare, very high-profile news stories
such as this one that happened in Paisley yesterday?