Realscientists posted this image to Twitter:
Self-Scoring Test:
In the last week, how often have you retweeted without “read[ing] the actual paper” pointed to by a tweet?
How many times did you retweet in total?
Formula: retweets w/o reading / retweets in total = % of retweets w/o reading.
No scale with superlatives because I don’t have numbers to establish a baseline for the “average” Twitter user.
I do know that I see click-bait, out-dated and factually wrong material retweeted by people who know better. That’s Twitter pollution.
Ask yourself: Am I a scientific Twitter user or a polluter?
Your call.