What's The Future Of Twitter? More Like TV As Users Start Posting Less, Say Scholars [STUDY]

It’s a weighty, expansive question that’s proved increasingly problematic to answer in the few years since Twitter first opened its doors to an unsuspecting public back in July 2006. Partly this is because what Twitter is now shifts continuously, making it very difficult to guess where and what it will be in just a few months time.

And partly it’s because you always have the feeling that Twitter themselves don’t really know what Twitter is, which doesn’t really help.

Still, that hasn’t stopped scholars at Columbia Business School and the University of Pittsburgh from trying to figure it all out, and in their latest study, which examined 2,500 Twitter users, they’ve come to a couple of interesting conclusions.