FACT: I tweet a lot.
FACT: Half is personal, half is professional.
FACT: I don’t know if all the content I post is actually worth reading…(I’d like to think so, but I know that is not the case).
Well…of all Twitterers EVER (well…only 21,000 to be exact) 25 percent don’t think content is worth reading according to researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
The three colleges surveyed Twitter users about how they perceive what they read in 140 characters. They created a website “Who Gives a Tweet?” and asked visitors to anonymously submit their tweets for feedback if they agreed to anonymously rate tweets of Twitter users they were following.
In late 2010 and early 2011, during a period of 19 days, slightly fewer than 1,500 visitors to the site rated nearly 44,000 tweets from the accounts of 21,000 Twitter users. To check out the stats and read some of the lessons for landing your tweet in the “worth reading” category, check out my post on the Borshoff blog. Do you agree with these nine lessons? Anything you’d add or remove? I think they nailed it!
