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A new study says most news articles have online half-life of 36 hours

Tue, July 11, 2006

Tags: Public Relations, Statistics

A new study was released that attempts to calculate the rate at which the number of people who read news stories on the web decays with time, and have found that most news becomes dated and unread after approximately a day and a half. The study shows that the structure of a typical news site is similar to that of a biological cell, with a "skeleton" that stays stable while temporary "nodes" (stories) come and go.


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