Hong Kong ( CNN ) -- In CNN 's Hong Kong newsroom , right next to my desk , there 's a `` douche jar . '' Inspired by the TV series `` New Girl , '' the `` douche jar '' was placed in our cubicle cluster to prevent general douchebaggery or acts of egregious self-promotion . It works like this -- if you say or do something like a douchebag , you put a fistful of local currency into the jar . In case you 're not familiar with the term , the Urban Dictionary offers up this definition . The douchebag `` has an inflated sense of self-worth , compounded by a lack of social grace and self-awareness . He behaves inappropriately in public , yet is completely ignorant to how pathetic he appears to others . '' In the newsroom , the jar is usually low on cash . Most of its contributions are made in jest by a colleague out to channel a self-absorbed jerk . But on Twitter , the `` douche jar '' is always full . There are tweets that claim to be BREAKING NEWS , when they are not . There are tweets that overuse # hashtags . And tweets that are whiny and excessively personal . The general douchebaggery across Twitter is so profound it 's prompted one user to launch `` Klouchebag '' -- a Klout-like site that generates your douche score . For the uninitiated , Klout uses analytics to determine a user 's influence across social networks . Is Twitter slowing down ? On Klouchebag , The ever- # winning Charlie Sheen registers as `` a bit of a douchebag '' with a score of 50 . For the record , I registered a score of 46 or `` quite noisy '' on the KB scale . But instead of hanging my head in shame , I 'll blame the medium . Twitter is , after all , is the one-to-many platform where you can sound off on anything . A bit of pride and pretense are bound to spill forth . Well , maybe more than a bit . According to a recent study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon , MIT and Georgia Tech , only around one third of a Twitter feed is actually valued by users . In a survey based on 43,000 responses to find out what people like and loathe about microblog posts , they found that followers described only 36 % of the rated tweets as `` Worth Reading . '' They thought 25 % were `` Not Worth Reading '' and were neutral about the remainder . As for what works and does n't work on the microblog ? According to the study , `` informative '' leads the reasons for liking a tweet . `` Boring '' dominates the reasons for disliking -- scoring higher than `` arrogant '' and `` mean '' combined . So on Twitter , it 's worse to be a bore than a douche . Perhaps that can explain the popularity of faux Twitter accounts that celebrate the self-love and pomposity of certain figures in popular culture . There 's `` Death Star PR , '' the official mouthpiece for the Galactic Empire . Sample tweet : `` It 's a beautiful day to Force choke a few idiots . '' And `` The Relevant Organs '' -- a Twitter feed that satirizes a Chinese communist party official with gems like : `` We 're confused . What part of intrusive policing , rabid anchormen , pandering websites and fenqing douchery is n't soft power genius ? '' `` Not Tilda Swinton '' had been issuing regular missives to her `` Tildren '' on how to achieve the actress 's mysterious aura and oneness with nature with tweeted tales like : `` I once waded the entire length of the Nile . I lost an arm to a hippo , but won it back in a game of Charades . I am stronger for it . '' Sadly , the fake Twitter account has been retired to keep the joke from getting stale . It 's a pity . Sometimes , we need a little douchebaggery in our lives to have a laugh at the self-centeredness of others and , thanks to downward comparison , feel better about ourselves . I went back to Klouchebag to see how I stacked up against Donald Trump on Twitter . I outscored him by a solid 32 points . And there 's another 20 bucks in the douche jar .
Twitter 's Kristie Lu ##tz says there 's no evidence of douchebaggery on Twitter . Klouchebag calculates Twitter users ' douche score to see how they rank . Recent research shows only one half of a Twitter account is actually valued by users .