What's the half-life of the Internet's attention span? By my math, it's less than three days. That's at least how long it took tweets about the Paris attacks to fade. On Saturday, 94 percent of Buzzfeed's tweets were about Paris; by Monday, only one in five were. As for the solidarity hashtags, they lasted only a few hours.
More a blessing than a curse
More a blessing than a curse
More a blessing than a curse
What's the half-life of the Internet's attention span? By my math, it's less than three days. That's at least how long it took tweets about the Paris attacks to fade. On Saturday, 94 percent of Buzzfeed's tweets were about Paris; by Monday, only one in five were. As for the solidarity hashtags, they lasted only a few hours.