The last great phenomenon of the web, Twitter could collect more nonsense than anything else. At least this is what the firm suggests Pear Analytics in August on a study of the popular social network. According to the same, 40.5% of what is written on the website is "useless babble" versus a poor 8.7%, which contains "information of value." The report's objective was to find out who really is using Twitter. For this, the authors analyzed for fifteen days every half-hour-mail that appeared on the social network in United States (in English) between 11 am and five p.m. Monday through Friday. Then, once the tweets collected, classified according to their content in the following six categories: news, spam, self promotion useless chatter, conversation and messages of value. It was felt that only those emails chatter reported on core activities such as eating or sleeping (example: I'm eating a ham and cheese sandwich), and repeated the conversation to exchange messages between two users.

The study shows that 40.5% of the tweets are nothing more than phrases or words with little interest. Message conversation, with a 37.5%, ranks second. In a distant third place are the so-called message of value, with 8.7%. According to the report, users will just use Twitter for news (3.6%).

Since Pear Analytics claim that the study's findings are "interesting" and "unexpected". The firm believes in a principle that users of Twitter page used primarily to promote himself or to sell some product. Was also surprised by the dearth of news in the tweets. "It will be interesting to see if the news are beginning to have a greater weight or if Twitter continues to be a network where people share their activities every day," says the founder of Pear Analytics, Ryan Kelly.

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