Roam4Free did an analysis of the cost to the economy of Twitter use.
Our figures suggests 27M minutes per day about 450,000 hours/days around 13.5M hours month of non productivity due to our obsession.
Our estimates for 2008 suggest @ a minimum lost productivity cost of $20/hour this will represent $300M/month so $900M for first quarter, $600M per month for 2nd quarter so $1.8B, $1.2b per month for 3rd quarter so $3.6b and $2.4b/month for 4th quarter so $7.2b
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Markus Goebel's Tech News Comments
January 6th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
1Let’s get rid of Twitter and Facebook!…
I like Pat very much. But I don’t need a status update every time his airplain is delayed, he buys a CD of Take That or answers a friend’s question. That’s the kind of information I find in Twitter feeds. For me that’s not useful and causes a false…
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