Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Tweet, Tweet, Tweet


Via topdesign mag

4 comments:

Blue Witch said...

What nationality were these tweets?  And how were they slected?

I do ate meaningless statisics.  They just clutter an over-cluttered world further.  People are tricked into thinking they understand them, but they don't.

Blue Witch said...

Here's the missing 'h' ;)

la peregrina said...

Oh, I just thought you were born within the sound of the Bow Bells. ;)

la peregrina said...

According to Pear they"took 2,000 tweets from the public timeline (in English and in the US) over a 2-week period from 11:00a to 5:00p (CST) and captured tweets in half-hour increments." They define babble as any tweet that just tells you what the person who tweeted is doing at the moment. A.K.A the "I'm eating a sandwich" tweet.


Information about the study here:
http://www.pearanalytics.com/blog/2009/twitter-study-reveals-interesting-results-40-percent-pointless-babble/

I agree with you about most statistics being meaningless as 90% of them are made up.  I should know since I made that statistic up myself. ;)