Comments on: Things We Already Know – Twitter Used For “Pointless Babble”

By: moskito

moskito — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:56:53 +0000

What can Twitter actually do for my business?

By: Malcolm Owen

Malcolm Owen — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:15:47 +0000

I am intrigued as to how 2000 is a significant number for this, based on the potential 42 Million (ish) posts to choose from. Alas, I also realise that the more in the sample size, the more time is spent deciding what to class each posting as, and the more expensive the research turns out to be.
Granted, there will still be people unhappy with the sample size even if it were 20,000 and so I can’t really complain too much about it. The answers probably still scale, though…

By: Ryan Kelly

Ryan Kelly — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:08:45 +0000

Malcom, 2000 tweets was a statistically significant number. We based it on roughly 3m tweets sent per day in the US (although there are no accurate estimates on this). If your into math, we’d be happy to show you how we arrived at that number :)