the Pareto principle says that 80% of the effects of something come from only 20% of the causes. it’s certainly something that i have encountered in my work. as a consultant helping to analyze the business needs of particular resources, i see a lot of resources and how they affect an organization. i can say with a high level of conviction that this pareto principle holds true for the vast majority of instances.

i was reminded of this when i saw a tweet from a colleague with a link to a bit of research completed on twitter users. from the article, research shows that most twitter users are those, “hey, seeing what this twitter thing is all about,” people who never return to the service… however! the top 10% of twitter users (in terms of their number of tweets) account for 90% of the overall tweets on the service.

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