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Just a few on Twitter do all the tweeting: study

June 5, 2009
by MB Snow

twitter_logoJust a few on Twitter do all the tweeting: study

Fri Jun 5, 2009 1:45am EDT 

By Erin Kutz

BOSTON (Reuters) – A tiny fraction of those who use the fast-growing social network phenomenon Twitter generate nearly all the content, a Harvard study shows.

That makes it hard for companies to use the micro-blogging site as an accurate gauge of public opinion, the Harvard Business School study showed.

Twitter Inc is a social networking website in which users post messages of 140 characters or less — known as “tweets” — that can be viewed by other users who elect to follow them.

The Harvard study examined public entries of a randomly selected group of 300,000 Twitter users. The researchers studied in May the content created in the lifetime of the users’ Twitter accounts.

It found that 10 percent of Twitter users generated more than 90 percent of the content, said Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, who led the research. More than half of all Twitter users post messages on the site less than once every 74 days.

via Just a few on Twitter do all the tweeting: study | Technology | Internet | Reuters .


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5 Comments
  1. Rolf Rosing permalink
    June 5, 2009 6:22 AM

    Hi, how can I contact you? I’m sorry to put this in the comments section, but I would like to ask permission to publish one of your photographs in our magazine. (really urgent, deadline is monday morning, Amsterdam CET)

    Kind regards,

    Rolf, The Netherlands

  2. ladylibertytoday permalink*
    June 5, 2009 11:07 AM

    To RolfRosing…

    You will have to get me contact info. If you have a blog or website please send the url.
    You can let me know the photo and I’ll answer in a comment page.
    MB Snow

  3. Rolf Rosing permalink
    June 5, 2009 11:34 AM

    TO: MB Snow:

    Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I don’t have a blog, I work for a print magazine in The Netherlands. We’d like to publish the photo of you and Mr. Geert Wilders, found on this page: . I’d like to discuss the details via e-mail.

    Thanks again!

    Rolf

  4. Rolf Rosing permalink
    June 5, 2009 11:35 AM

    Oops, the link vanished. I hope this works:

    http://sroblog.com/2009/04/07/the-david-horowitz-freedom-center-honors-geert-wilders-sroblog/

  5. ladylibertytoday permalink*
    June 6, 2009 12:20 PM

    Yes….

    email……mbsnow@mac.com

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