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>> "38% of users have never sent a single tweet, and over 75% of users have sent fewer than 10 tweets."

That's pretty damning. Are these accounts setup in the hope people will follow them - honey pot style maybe? For spamming later.

>> Source = TXT: <5%

Since less than 5% are using sms to update twitter surely they can abolish the outdated 140 character limit?

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Since less than 5% are using sms to update twitter surely they can abolish the outdated 140 character limit?

Never having used it, I can't actually say, but I had the impression that the 140 character limit was the point of Twitter.

I guess to a certain extent, but for most use cases it just becomes irritating and makes people use url shorteners, txt spk etc.

Not to be a broken record, but I think these accounts are setup to "listen" to the brands, people, celebrities, products, etc that the subscriber is interested in. Most people don't blog, but lots of people read blogs. Twitter isn't really a social network, it's a subscriber broadcast medium.

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