No tweets from many Twitter members: report

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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Barely a peep is heard from most Twitter members despite the soaring popularity of the micro-blogging service, according to a pair of freshly-released reports.

Web analytics firm HubSpot found that nearly 55 percent of 4.5 million Twitter members monitored have never "tweeted" -- fired off concise text messages to others using the micro-blogging service.

More than half of Twitter members have no followers and about 55 percent of them aren't following anyone else's micro-messages, according to a "State of the Twittersphere" report by HubSpot.

Meanwhile, a study by Harvard Business School researchers concluded that 10 percent of Twitter members account for 90 percent of tweets.

"A typical Twitter user contributes very rarely," Harvard MBA...