I think that statistic sounds about right, I would argue that 90% of all trending topics are worthless. - Nicholas Kreidberg

That few? - Mindy Currier

Not to them. - mrpotter

I am eating a sandwich - Tom Horn from iPhone

Those spammy "how to get more followers" tweets are worthless, but I get some entertainment value out of reading my friends babble. So not entirely worthless...to me. - Cass

I just ignore those how to get followers - polou/indigo_bow

I'm surprised the numbers is so low. (And that includes some of my own tweets.) - Bird-botts

who is surprised. how many emails are "worthless"? how many web pages are "worthless"? - Chris Brakebill

neat audio embed, how's that done? - Sean Sloan

what! 60% of them are worth "something"! that's huge! i bet that "worthless" number is far far far worse for the general web! - simran

aren't like 80% of words [in a sentence] in the english language redundant and hence worthless... and tweets usually cut down the useless redundant english words (only 140 chars to get your msg across :) so by ratio, they are worth a lot more! :) - simran

of course we all assume our personal tweets were judged to be worthy and special... ;) So LOLcats? Worthy or worthless? inquiring minds....? - WarLord

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Some of us tried to get #stpuid (note spelling) to trend. We didn't succeed, but at least we had fun doing it. I suspect it was meant (or at least taken to mean) as something of a parody of this (i.e. 40% of tweets being pointless). And I came up with the hashtag #pointlesstweet, which should be useful. ;) - Dennis Jernberg

WarLord: LOLcats or Trollcats or whatever, if I understand this right, that kind of tweet isn't statistically considered pointless as long as it contains a link. - Dennis Jernberg

It sure seems like more than 40% are worthless lol - Logan Lindquist