Majority of people reply to their emails within just 2 minutes

Washington: A new research done on email usage has found that nearly 90 percent of users reply to their emails within a day and majority of them reply within just two minutes.

Researches of Yahoo Labs in California and Spain analyzed the email habits of 2 million users who exchanged 16 billion emails in 7 months and observed that emails that were replied within just 2 minutes were as short as between 5 and 43 words, ABC News reported.

The research later discovered that the frequency of reply as well as the length of the email was increased as the email exchanges or conversation progressed, but at the end, e-mailers lost steam possibly because there was nothing left to say.

The researchers also observed that emails sent on the weekend or overnight got slower and shorter, and the ones sent in the morning had faster and longer replies.

On the other hand research showed that teens and youngsters answered their emails faster than any other group whereas ones over 51 years of age took an average of 47 minutes to send an email.

Also people who were bombarded with 100 emails or more per day only bothered answering about 5 percent of them, compared to a 25 percent average email response rate for people who had less amount of mails to manage.