A short-term study of Twitter has found that 40% of the messages sent via it are “pointless babble.” Carried out by US market research firm Pear Analytics, the study aimed to produce a snapshot of what people do with the service. Almost as prevalent as the babble were “conversational” tweets that used it as a surrogate instant messaging system. The study found that only 8.7% of messages could be said to have “value” as they passed along news of interest. BBC NEWS, 2009년 8월 17일, Twitter tweets are 40% ‘babble’ 기사 중 일부 미국의 market research firm인 Pear Analytics의 발표 […]