I am a bit disappointed to have heard recently that only 5% of Twitter's Tweets are actually read. This doesn't surprise me one bit as the response rate from posts are very small unless someone has searched the key word or I have republished the Tweet on my Facebook page. I run three twitter accounts that broadcast about different topics: Jeff Cohn, DeadZones, PhotoEnforced. Through all of my accounts I have a nice organic following of about 3,000 people. However, the response rate is very low on each of the Tweets. I think this is largely because of the lack of reporting, spam and poor filter tools limit the ROI for the time spent. However, I keep publishing in the hopes that someday these issues are corrected and real time search become more of a mainstream event amongst social networks and news.
