New Study finds Twitter 91.3% pointless

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Basically, a new study found that 91.3% of all tweets on Twitter had no value. Roughly 40% were just junk ("My left big toenail is cute"), and about 40% were conversations - IM's. All in all, they found that only 8.7% were actually "of value."

This comes on the heels of another study which showed that only 6% of Twitter users are actually genuinely active.

All hail Twitter, King of hype. Not sure how Twitter managed to explode and become the cool new thing the way it did, but with much more content (photos, etc) I think Facebook has a lot more staying power.

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