Twitter

Just found a piece of interesting information about the content of tweets :

Based market research firm Pear Analytics analyzed 2,000 tweets (originating from the US and in English) over a 2-week period in August 2009 from 11:00a to 5:00p (CST) and separated them into six categories:

Pointeless babble – 41%
Conversational – 38%
Pass-along value – 9%
Self-promotion – 6%
Spam – 4%
News – 4%

Social networking researcher Danah Boyd responded to the Pear Analytics survey by arguing that what the Pear researchers labelled "pointless babble" is better characterized as "peripheral awareness" or "social grooming"

It should not be shocked to see the rates above. Like other networkings, many people use Twitter to babble and gossip and many people use it as a conversitional tool. I think then Twitter loses its advantages if the rates keep at this way. Except the Internet, Twitter messages can be received with other devices, such as SMS, and Twitter was designed as information networking instead of social networking. These are all the unique features which Twitter has and people should have better uses on.