25% of messages on Twitter are not interesting

Approximately 25% of the news published in the social network Twitter, are not of interest. These are the results of the study, which was attended by scientists from several US universities and the users themselves online service.

Scientists from the University of Carnegie - Mellon University in Pittsburgh and Georgia Institute of Technology and Massachusetts were asked to 1, 5 thousands of volunteers - users Twitter - to assess the meaning of more than 40 thousand messages that have appeared on the network. Posts belonged to 21,000 users.

The conclusion of scientists: on Twitter publish 130 million messages a day, which are not interesting. It turned out that only 36% of reports were rated as worthy of reading, and 25% showed volunteers "are not worthy of attention." The rest of the posts they were deeply indifferent.

Unflattering assessment basically got messages that are someone's private conversation. In second place on the rejection of - messages about the health of current or classes of users Twitter. However, the self-promotion of other members showed the participants of the experiment is not so uninteresting.

On the other hand, a positive assessment are more likely to get the tweets that contain a question, the opinion of the author and a link to the material.

In the world's most popular microblogging service Twitter recorded more than 200 million accounts, and their number continues to grow. The number of active users joining the service site at least once a month by the end of 2011 exceeded 100 million.

Source: hitech.newsru.com

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