The Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela is a centuries old trek across northern Spain done by following "The Camino de Santiago", the road to Santiago. Before February of 2001 I had not heard of "The Camino" nor of the Pilgrimage. By the end of October of that year I was in Santiago after completing the walk myself. I thought that when I reached Santiago my journey was over but I see now that my journey started way before I got to Spain and still has not ended.
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.
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. ;)
What nationality were these tweets? And how were they slected?
ReplyDeleteI do ate meaningless statisics. They just clutter an over-cluttered world further. People are tricked into thinking they understand them, but they don't.
Here's the missing 'h' ;)
ReplyDeleteOh, I just thought you were born within the sound of the Bow Bells. ;)
ReplyDeleteAccording 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.
ReplyDeleteInformation 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. ;)