Study: 40 percent of Twitter is babble – SciTechBlog - CNN.com Blogs

What I hate is that companies like CNN rely on Twitter as a source of news. It does seem that way more than 40% of the posts on Twitter are just people posting about the current Twittering Trends, but not adding anything of value. ... Celebrity “news” and junk articles (this one included) discussing the latest fads are just huuuuuge wastes of time! jkramer, August 17th, 2009 11:09 pm ET. I'm surprised the number is so low, I'd have guessed at least 80%. ...