Twitter is your information super highway, a constant stream of great, insightful tweets… except when they’re not. Apparently, Twitter users think that a quarter of all tweets they see aren’t even worth reading.
Researchers created a website “Who Gives a Tweet?†to survey Twitter users about how they perceive what they read in 140 characters.
Key Findings:
- Only 36 percent of the tweets that these visitors read were actually considered worthwhile.
- 25 percent of the tweets were disliked and deemed to be unworthy of even reading
- 39 percent elicited no strong opinion.
So what features do these unworthy 25 percent of tweets share?
- someone else’s conversation
- updates around that user’s current mood or activity.
Read more on these findings at mediabistro.
