Bacon, lettuce, AND tomato, you say? You should definitely tell people all about that...
'Twitter is mostly used for pointless babble and conversations between people, a study shows. Marketing intelligence firm Pear Analytics found that 40% of the tweets flowing on the site were about someone eating a sandwich or some other "pointless babble," and 37% were parts of conversations.'
More delightful, prejudice-confirming details here:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/social_network/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219400104&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
The company's official line on the research here:
http://www.pearanalytics.com/2009/twitter-study-reveals-interesting-results-about-usage/
Edit: Some of the comments (i.e. the ones not riddled with typos and/or general sheep-like f*ckwittery...baaaaa) are completely on the money, e.g. "Smithwill"'s...
"On Twitter as in life, there’s a whole lot of self-promotion and BS out there. It’s a way to connect sociopaths and people bent on self-flagellation and give everyone what they want when they want it."
More delightful, prejudice-confirming details here:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/social_network/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219400104&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
The company's official line on the research here:
http://www.pearanalytics.com/2009/twitter-study-reveals-interesting-results-about-usage/
Edit: Some of the comments (i.e. the ones not riddled with typos and/or general sheep-like f*ckwittery...baaaaa) are completely on the money, e.g. "Smithwill"'s...
"On Twitter as in life, there’s a whole lot of self-promotion and BS out there. It’s a way to connect sociopaths and people bent on self-flagellation and give everyone what they want when they want it."