Why Engineers Don't Like Twitter

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?"

Comments

98% said "It's teh gayzorz"

[SlappyBastard]

EOM

Re:Breakfast?

[Anonymous Coward]

Did you even READ TFL? The author clearly addresses your concern. And his issue with Twatter and other "constant interruption" sources is that they seem to be fundamentally rewiring our brains so that we have difficulty concentrating on hard problems for long periods of time.