Of 1.2 Billion Twitter Posts, 71% Are Ignored 192
destinyland writes "1.2 billion Twitter 'tweets' were analyzed over two months by analytics company Sysomos, who concluded that a whopping 71% of them got no reaction whatsoever — no online responses, and no Twitter 'retweets.' 'Only a small number of users actually have the ability to engage on Twitter in a significant way,' the researchers conclude, noting that just 6% of Twitter's status updates ever get retweeted (while 23% get a reply). And among those status updates, 85% have exactly one response, while only 1.53% of Twitter conversations are more than three levels deep — where a reply receives a response which then generates a second reply." I am astounded by the claim that nearly three out of ten tweets actually do get any response.
Re:aww... (Score:4, Informative)
As this comment will probably be.
Re:Not the point (Score:4, Informative)
Approaching 80-20 (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Simple, just use perfect compression recursivel (Score:3, Informative)
Re:aww... (Score:5, Informative)
The true stats are worse ... as I'll explain below:
I'm not. "Social marketers" buy twitter accounts in bulk - ten cents apiece.
Many of the "responses" are from one "bought" account to another to try to generate "buzz" - the true level is probably in the single digits.
Re:Simple, just use perfect compression recursivel (Score:4, Informative)
Re:aww... (Score:3, Informative)
There are a lot of others, too. I follow quite a few software authors to hear about problems they've found or new releases. "Found a glitch when posting to Reddit" or "Apple just approved version 2.4.1!" don't deserve replies.
I never retweet famous people or software authors. I figure that if you wanted to hear Conan O'Brien's latest quip, you'd follow him. If you don't own a copy of OmniFocus, then you won't care about a new version. While I don't ignore those tweets, I have no incentive to pass them along so I don't.
TFA does not say 'ignored' (Score:1, Informative)
I'd just like to point out that the word 'ignored' does not appear anywhere in TFA. By saying that 71% are ignored, whoever it was that wrote the headline for this submission has drawn their own, very clearly non-provable, conclusion from the data contained in TFA.