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The 90/10 Rule Holds Once Again!

Thursday, June 4, 2009

I've seen this everywhere I've been in life and with everything I've ever done: 10% of people do 90% of the work (sometimes it's 20% do 80% of the work, but it's always somewhere in that 10/90 or 20/80 range). Well, according to a new study, it's apparently true on Twitter as well as in "real life."
A tiny fraction of those who use the fast-growing social network phenomenon Twitter generate nearly all the content, a Harvard study shows.

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It found that 10 percent of Twitter users generated more than 90 percent of the content, said Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, who led the research. More than half of all Twitter users post messages on the site less than once every 74 days.

The median number of lifetime "tweets" per user is just one, according the research.
For the record, I've now tweeted 1,034 times. How about you?