While I'll concede there's a fair amount of "babble" on Twitter, I think
the study writes that off to quickly. With messages limited to 140
characters context becomes all the more important, and the real thing
happening is a weaving of individual twitter streams into interlocking
relationships. I would suspect you'd get a similar set of data if you
observed snippets of conversations in a cocktail party - the message
sometimes is just the medium.

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Records Management Program <[log in to unmask]> wrote on 08/17/2009
11:20:42 AM:

> See the site below for a reference to a research study on the use of
> twitter which concluded that broke down messages this way 40.5%
> could be classified as pointless babble (such as I am eating a
> sandwich), 37.5% as conversational and 8.7% as having pass-along
> value. Self promotion and spam stood at 5.85% and 3.75% respectively.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8204842.stm
>
> David Gaynon

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