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Monday, August 17, 2009

Teh Internets Twitter, Twitter, Twitter

Posted by Charles Mudede on Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:15 PM

And why did this report make me laugh?

Forty percent of the messages on Twitter are "pointless babble" along the lines of "I am eating a sandwich now," according to a study conducted by a US market research firm.

What's funny about it? The researchers (and even the reporter) seem not have expected this more than evident finding. They seem so disappointed, so troubled. And what were the market researchers hoping to find? Something with a little more meat to it: "I am eating a sandwich at Subway now."

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Who are these people with 60% pointful non-babble messages? I don't think I've seen even a single Twitter message that was worth a damn.

Posted by Fnarf

on August 17, 2009 at 4:34 PM

Oh. Twitter. Hasn't that jumped the shark yet?

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on August 17, 2009 at 4:39 PM

i think your 'i ate a peach' blogs are a tad worse, hypocrite.

Posted by citizens for a better SLOG on August 17, 2009 at 4:44 PM

Ninety percent of Charles Mudede's posts on Slog are "pointless babble," according to a study conducted by me.

Posted by N on August 17, 2009 at 5:15 PM

Only 40%? What was their method of gathering data?

Posted by LuisitaPhD on August 17, 2009 at 5:31 PM

I'm typing on SLOG right now @WillSeattle

Posted by Will in Seattle

on August 17, 2009 at 5:56 PM

Twitter and waste the hours in an offhand way.

Posted by Wish You Were Her on August 17, 2009 at 6:13 PM

Isn't 90% of all talking pointless babble?

Posted by Abby on August 17, 2009 at 6:15 PM

this was a joke 5 days ago. First time twitter made me LULZ.

Posted by wisepunk on August 17, 2009 at 6:23 PM

Scientists do studies on things like ¨Do prayers make you heal faster¨ and ¨Do highschoolers use drugs.¨ And they write their pieces with a straight face everytime. I don´t need to read said study to know that the researchers do not reveal disappointment or surprise in their paper. They wrote it with a straight face and left it to...people like you to add the obvious ´DUH´

Posted by give me pom on August 17, 2009 at 7:14 PM

That's hilarious coming from a person who's blog posts are at least 40% pointless babble. The other 60% are just incomprehensible.

Posted by the other person on August 17, 2009 at 8:08 PM

Science is the discipline of making the obvious, tedious.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on August 17, 2009 at 8:22 PM

Urgutha, I live to see your avatar. Thank you.

Posted by David K

on August 17, 2009 at 9:14 PM

What a great way to spend research funding.

Posted by pheasantweber on August 17, 2009 at 10:53 PM

Twitter is somehow more inane than Myspace and Facebook combined.

Posted by undead ayn rand on August 17, 2009 at 11:45 PM

@13, Thanks. Sleestaks are pretty awesome.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on August 18, 2009 at 9:43 AM

There was twitterish phenom in the '50s prevalent in junior high schools called "character books" in which was listed your best friend(s), your favorite color(s), the name of your cats and dogs - they were handmade in little loose-leaf notebooks, and you passed these around among your what-would-come-to-be-called facebook friends to fill in the little known non-essential facts about their lives. Somehow this pointless exercise has been transferred to this Age of Obliviousness and enjoys an undeserved cachet that underlines the fact that talking in your hand has become an addiction worse than meth. Hail to the flickering twitterer.

Posted by Rhett Oracle on August 18, 2009 at 11:47 AM

I know I should have twittered when Ian showed up on KOMO 4 TV last night at 11 pm, but I was too slow on the draw.

Couldn't find a link to bit.ly it.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on August 18, 2009 at 12:25 PM

i just ate a sandwich. it was great.

Posted by dustin on August 18, 2009 at 12:36 PM