Online news story life short
A team of U.S. and Hungarian scientists say the majority of online news stories have a lifetime of just 36 hours.
"As reporters have always suspected, yesterday's news is stale, and the day before's news is invisible," says Nature's Philip Ball.
One caveat is that the researchers at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and colleagues determined the figure after analyzing only one site, Hungary's main online news and entertainment portal Origo.
If you click on this link, notice how ironic the story's lead is. And read to the end.
And for those interested, here is the actual research paper.
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