"40 % of Twitter messages are 'pointless babble'"!!! Only 40???

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#1 backinthekrak
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.80c182849ca932a32a5eda49e4fe1b02.3b1&show_article=1

I was thinking it would be more like 80%.

"I am eating a sandwich now...". THIS is people are so excited about?

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#2 -Fromage-
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Isnt everything babble?
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#3 Dman0017
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.80c182849ca932a32a5eda49e4fe1b02.3b1&show_article=1

I was thinking it would be more like 80%.

"I am eating a sandwich now...". THIS is people are so excited about?

backinthekrak
i have never seen anything useful on twitter. unless you count knowing what my neighbors cat did with its new squeaky toy
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#4 muller39
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[QUOTE="backinthekrak"]

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.80c182849ca932a32a5eda49e4fe1b02.3b1&show_article=1

I was thinking it would be more like 80%.

"I am eating a sandwich now...". THIS is people are so excited about?

I have to agree, I thought it was more as well.
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#5 Maqda7
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I have never seen the appeal of Twitter.
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#6 RJay123
Member since 2009 • 911 Posts

It's not necessarily pointless. But you can do the same on Facebook, and Facebook has more features, so why is Twitter necessary?

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#7 KLAX42
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Who is to judge what's babble and what isn't? I love Twitter, I might add. :P

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#8 Legendaryscmt
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Who is to judge what's babble and what isn't? I love Twitter, I might add. :P

KLAX42

Because what's the point of knowing that someone you know is having a ham sandwich?

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#9 AnObscureName
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I think that statistic is 40% plus or minus 60...
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#10 ScreaminPatriot
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I have never seen the appeal of Twitter.Maqda7
Neither have I, the site has not substance to it. All Twitter is about is status updates.
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#11 Dman0017
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[QUOTE="KLAX42"]

Who is to judge what's babble and what isn't? I love Twitter, I might add. :P

Legendaryscmt

Because what's the point of knowing that someone you know is having a ham sandwich?

i just had a big mac and it was good [spoiler] just kidding, i hate that [/spoiler]

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#12 pierst179
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And here I thought it was 100%! Silly me!

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#13 KLAX42
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[QUOTE="KLAX42"]

Who is to judge what's babble and what isn't? I love Twitter, I might add. :P

Legendaryscmt

Because what's the point of knowing that someone you know is having a ham sandwich?

Maybe somebody poisoned the bread and you have to stop them from eating the sandwich before it's too late.

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#14 queen_vee
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Twitter IS babble.
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#15 deactivated-5f26ed7cf0697
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I've never seen the appeal for Twitter or Facebook.

Facebook in particular is just sad. We've come to a point where most people are making "friends" more online rather than real time face to face.

Twitter is for rich moronic celebs who've made too much money and have far too much time on their hands.

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#16 Legendaryscmt
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[QUOTE="Legendaryscmt"]

[QUOTE="KLAX42"]

Who is to judge what's babble and what isn't? I love Twitter, I might add. :P

KLAX42

Because what's the point of knowing that someone you know is having a ham sandwich?

Maybe somebody poisoned the bread and you have to stop them from eating the sandwich before it's too late.

By the time they figured that out, it would be too late to update that on twitter.

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#17 Punjabiking101
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Twitter sounds like stalker heaven. :P

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#18 RJay123
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I've never seen the appeal for Twitter or Facebook.

Facebook in particular is just sad. We've come to a point where most people are making "friends" more online rather than real time face to face.

Twitter is for rich moronic celebs who've made too much money and have far too much time on their hands.

VERTIGO47

Facebook isn't sad at all....you make the friend in real time face to face, and once you know their name you look them up on Facebook and it gives you an easy way of communicating with that person you met at work or school or wherever. I find it useful.

Twitter on the other hand....is just the status updates feature of Facebook as someone said

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#19 Xsan3
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Most of this particular forum is pointless babble - what a coinkidink - so is this post!

No Offense. :|

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#20 jimmyjammer69
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People use Twitter because it was marketed as being the SN site that the celebs use (at least in England), so even mere mortals could get a "haha, yeah" from the likes of Stephen Fry or Kevin Spacey. Budding directors and stalkers can't get enough of that sort of recognition.
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#21 caddy
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From what I have seen on twitter, most of it is people having conversations about stuff. That's certainly what I use it for.
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#22 dhyce
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I'll never make a twitter account. If I ever feel like expressing my random thoughts to people I dial random numbers and inform whoever picks up what I just did. Then hang up. If they star 69 me I inform them of something else I have recently done, then hang up once more.

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#23 RJay123
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I'll never make a twitter account. If I ever feel like expressing my random thoughts to people I dial random numbers and inform whoever picks up what I just did. Then hang up. If they star 69 me I inform them of something else I have recently done, then hang up once more.

dhyce

random people? you wouldn't pick someone from your contact list? lol

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#24 dhyce
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random people? you wouldn't pick someone from your contact list? lol

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Heavens no, my friends do not need to know I just checked the mailbox, made the bed, or ate a triscuit. Strangers do though, they just don't know it yet.

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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.80c182849ca932a32a5eda49e4fe1b02.3b1&show_article=1

I was thinking it would be more like 80%.

"I am eating a sandwich now...". THIS is people are so excited about?

backinthekrak

more like 95%

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#26 chAzN93
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i thought it was 100%

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#27 hedden93
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Twitter is so pointless.

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#28 chAzN93
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Twitter is so pointless.

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yeah i agree at least facebook is useful
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#29 Chris_Williams
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i use facebook and myspace and have a blog...the only way i would get a twitter was if i was famous, and i had stalkers...