Twitter filled with 'pointless babble,' study finds - InternetNews.com

With the recent glut of media attention lavished on Twitter as the great, transformative communications platform of our time, it perhaps shouldn't be surprising to see a research firm take a stab at quantifying what, exactly, people are saying on the microblogging service.

One such effort comes from Pear Analytics, which recently analyzed a sample of 2,000 tweets and organized them into six categories: News, Spam, Self-Promotion, Pointless Babble, Conversational and Pass-Along Value...