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40% of Twitter is mindless babble. So what?

By Kevin OKeefe

A recent white paper (pdf) published by Pear Analytics (found via Thord Daniel Hedengren at Blog Herald) says that 40.55% of all tweets are pointless babble. So what? Listen into every word at a cocktail reception of lawyers, industry professionals, reporters, and corporate executives following a one day seminar for corporate leaders and in-house counsel. Pull out isolated 140 character phrases from the conversation. Think they'll all be priceless words of wisdom on which one could hang the next large business deal? Hardly. You'd be just as apt to hear someone talking about buying a recent puppy, which vodka they like best, or the recent weather as offering valuable insight and commentary on the law or industry happenings. But that does not dismiss the value of you, as a lawyer, attending that reception...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on August 16, 2009 (boomark / email).