50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K Elite Users

Re:50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K Elite Users by panacea on Saturday March 26, 2011 @08:24PM (#2373647)

Consumed? That implies that they're actually read (and comprehended rather than downloaded to a stream?), and that they no longer exist afterwards.

Sure, the firehose favors subscriptions, but that's about the only take-away.

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Re:50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K Elite Users by lowprofile on Saturday March 26, 2011 @10:45PM (#2373984)

I always wonder about zombie consumers, those that are signed up to follow but never really pay attention to the tweets.

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