Out of 100 tweets, how many are gone just a few months after being posted?
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Of the nearly 5 million tweets Pew tracked, 18% were no longer publicly visible within a few months of being posted. In 60% of those cases the whole account had been deleted, suspended or made private. It is not just tweets. 25% of all webpages that existed at some point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer reachable.
18% of tweets vanish within months. 25% of every webpage that existed between 2013 and 2023 is already unreachable.
Source: Pew Research Center · checked May 2024