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Why Engineers Don't Like Twitter

Posted by Soulskill on from the signal-to-noise dept.

PabloSandoval48 writes, "A recent EE Times survey of 285 engineers found that 85% don't use Twitter. More than half indicated that the statement 'I don't really care what you had for breakfast' best sums up their feelings about it." Reader mattnyc99 notes a related article in which the authors analyzed the content of tweets during a recent World Cup game, finding 76% of them to be useless. "Out of 1,000 tweets with the #worldcup hashtag during the game, only 16 percent were legitimate news and 7.6 percent were deemed 'legitimate conversation' — which leaves 6 percent spam, 24 percent self-promotion, about 17 percent re-tweets, and a whopping 29 percent of useless observation (like this). Is the mainstream media making too big a deal out of the avalanche of World Cup tweets, or is the world literally flooding the zone?"

5 of 460 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Breakfast? -- What about later? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Poop time!

  2. Annoying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I hate the way the threads work in Slashdot stories now. I HATE it when I click on a subject heading, and having it act like a link to the post, instead of just expanding the post on the current page.

    I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE it.

    Seriously, I come here for the comments, and this is making it annoying to see them. It makes me not want to come back here.

  3. Re:Breakfast? by Lord+of+the+Fries · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wish I had mod points. Mod parent up.

    --
    One man's pink plane is another man's blue plane.
  4. Re:Breakfast? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    tl;dr

  5. Twitter is more than Twitter by jdupin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Twitter is now an ecosystem. There are so many applications around twitter, its not anymore about pushing some crappy update.

    You can have IM chat share pictures or monitor you plants :)

    Twitter is now a very large scale social network hub.