TWITTER ANALYSIS: 40% of Tweets Are Pointless Babble

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Jennifer Van Grove
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TWITTER ANALYSIS: 40% of Tweets Are Pointless Babble
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The clear winner: pointless babble tweets, with over one-third of all studied tweets fitting into the "I'm eating a sandwich now" category. As somewhat of a redemption for our narcissistic oversharing ways, conversational tweets came in a very close second with 37.55%. Pass-along value — or RTs — captured third-place with only 8.7%, but, thankfully, spam only accounted for 3.75% of all tweets studied.

Other key findings:

- News tweets are heaviest at 2:00pm CST on Tuesdays

- Pass-along value tweets are most frequently seen at 11:30am CST on Mondays

- Spam tweets flow consistently all day, everyday

- Conversational tweets are heaviest on Tuesdays

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