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4% of Tweets Include Product Recommendations or Complaints

Twitter message types

Semantic search company TextWise used their Semantic Signatures technology to analyze the content of Twitter messages.  They used the streaming API to download a sampling of 8.9 million tweets posted by 2.6 million unique users.

They found that 2.7 million of these tweets, or 31%, were replies to a tweet posted by another user, half a million (6%) were retweets, and almost 2 million (22%) of the messages contained a URL.

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