Comments on: Hooray for Twitter’s ‘Idle Class!’

By: 451 Heat » Recent Study Finds 90% of Tweets are Done by 10% of Twitter Users…So What?

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:36:05 +0000

[...] social media blogger and tweeter Doug Haslem agrees, mentioning on his blog that “the lurkers, the ‘Idle Class’ of social media, are important…who’s to say they [...]

By: Tim Allik

Tim Allik — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:37:27 +0000

My dad used to work with Kraft in the 1980s. Their research showed that 10 percent of the public eats 90 percent of the sour cream. Some people just really get into things. At least Twitter has zero calories.

By: Doug Haslam

Doug Haslam — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:44:59 +0000

Thanks Bryan– people are pretty quick to read bad things into the report– I see more growing pains, but also some natural social selection.

By: Bryan Person

Bryan Person — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:57:55 +0000

Ahh, the never-ending question of what to do about the lurkers. In this instance, I agree with you. If that 90% (or at least a percentage of that 90%) is reading, “listening,” or otherwise deriving value without actually tweeting themselves, who are we 10 percenters to complain? :)