A new study suggests the majority of the tweets that we read are about as interesting as watching David Attenborough bake a sponge cake.
When you pen one of your thousand daily tweets do you feel as though a piece of literary genius has just left your fingers? Well don’t. That’s the advice coming from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, MIT and Georgia Tech.
The three schools joined forces to study how people rate the hundreds of thousands of tweets that are posted every second of every day. They created the aptly named site ‘Who Gives a Tweet’ which gets users to sign up and rate random people’s tweets. In return you get human feedback on your own tweets.
According to the study, during a 19-day period in December and January, a total of 1,433 visitors of ‘Who Gives a Tweet’ rated 43,000 tweets from 2,000 accounts.
So what do strangers think of your creative brilliance and your nose for journalism? Users liked 36 per cent of the tweets, disliked 25 per cent and were indifferent to the remaining 39 per cent.
Michael Bernstein, a doctoral student at MIT who worked on the project, said, “A well-received tweet is not all that common.
“A significant amount of content is considered not worth reading, for a variety of reasons.”
So the next time you decide to tell the world how freakishly long your last venture to the jacks was, spare a thought for the 64 per cent of us who couldn’t give a…
