Most Twitter feeds just nonsense, report says

In a report certain to shock few, media analytics firm Pear Research took 2,000 tweets from the public timeline (in English and in the United States) over a two-week period, capturing tweets in half-hour increments, and categorized them into six buckets. Not surprisingly, "Pointless Babble" won, with 40.55 percent of the total tweets captured. Placing a close second at 37.55 percent was "Conversational." "Pass-Along Value" was third (albeit distant) at 8.7 percent of the tweets captured.

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