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A quarter of US adults on Twitter account for 97% of the tweets
- iotku 5y agoTitle is definitely malformed on this one, a quarter of US adults have a Twitter account of which the top 25% most active US adults produce 97% of the tweets.
- musicale 5y agoI think it's intended to read: A quarter of (US adults on Twitter) account for 97% of tweets That seems to be based on this result from the article: An analysis of tweets by this representative sample of U.S. adult Twitter users from June 12 to Sept. 12, 2021, finds that the most active 25% of U.S. adults on Twitter by tweet volume produced 97% of all tweets from these users.
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- satvikpendem 5y agoThis is how the 1% rule works [0]. More generally, it's an application of the 80/20 or Pareto principle. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)#:~:text=In%20Internet%20culture%2C%20the%201,of%20the%20participants%20only%20lurk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)#:....