Nature reports that “a team of scientists from Hungary and the United States has found that the majority of online news items 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”.From the papers abstract.”our results document the fleeting quality of news and events:while fifteen minutes of fame is still an exaggeration in the online media, we find that access to most news items significantly decays after 36 hours of posting”.
Fifteen Minutes of Fame:The Dynamics of Information Access on the Web
