News - Twitter 'elite' dominate action on micro blogging site

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Small-ish group creates half of all Tweets, says research.

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[andyb123]

so basically there's 20,000 people who actually use twitter
and 200 million who signed up for an account, realised that twitter was just 20,000 idiots spewing garbage and didn't bother with it anymore

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Approximately 50 percent of all tweets that are shared and read on Twitter are created by an ‘elite' group of 20,000 users, in spite of Twitter notching up an impressive 200 million registered accounts

Yep, the other 199,980,000 folks (like me) have better things to do than create endless tweets.

As the old clichés say "brevity is the soul of wit" or "if you've got nothing worthwhile to say, then best say nothing" - so lesser is better.

My life is a Facebook-free zone...