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Originally Posted by Chris
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. |
I think Damien's point is entirely valid. In the way you put it, the study answers a question in a valid manner. However, the question is stupid. The comparison with the internet is spot on. It's probably fair to say that 90% of the web is rubbish, but that doesn't make the web rubbish, as the remaining 10% is extremely useful.
By simply taking a random sample of tweets, they are completely ignoring the fact that most of these tweets are not followed by anyone (as well as their context presumably). To arrive at a meaningful statement about Twitter, they'd at least have to weight tweets for the number of followers. As it stands, the study is little more than a meaningless sound-bite.
I don't use Twitter btw.