[LINK] Pointless twitter, search engine wars and why didn't yahoo take off in Oz?

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

Stilgherrian wrote:
> On 19/08/2009, at 1:41 PM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>   
>>> Twitter is used mostly for pointless babble, than as a
>>> conversational or 'pass-along value' medium. A study
>>> has revealed that around 40.55 percent of the total
>>> tweets can be classified as "pointless
>>> babble" or the "I am eating a sandwich now" tweets.
>>>       
> That "research" was a piece of rubbish designed to pimp a product, and  
> completely missed the social growing / phatic communication aspects.  
> There's been LOTS written debunking it, including these first two  
> articles of mine and a lot of commentary.
>   
Any research that claims "around 40.55 per cent" of anything is 
immediately suspect as far as I am concerned.

"Around 40%" is acceptable.

Neither "around 40.55 per cent" nor even "40.55 per cent" are, IMHO.

So I'm with Stil on this, but maybe for different reasons as I have no 
interest in twittering.

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Regards
brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Canberra Australia
brd at iimetro.com.au