People who believe that Twitters useful and important are not going to be pleased with the results of a new study.

Pear Analytics tried to categorize 2,000 tweets, and found that 40.55 percent of them fell into the pointless babble bucket.Lets start with the setup working from Monday to Friday during the day, Pear captured 2,000 tweets over the course of two weeks. Next, it established the categories news, spam, selfpromotion, passalong value tweets including the term RT, conversational questions, polls, and backandforth exchanges, and pointless babble with I am eating a sandwich now given as an example.