Digital Preservation: Research Paper: “Losing My Revolution: How Many Resources Shared on Social Media Have Been Lost?”
Social media content has grown exponentially in the recent years and the
role of social media has evolved from just narrating life events to
actually shaping them. In this paper we explore how many resources
shared in social media are still available on the live web or in public
web archives. By analyzing six different event-centric datasets of
resources shared in social media in the period from June 2009 to March
2012, we found about 11% lost and 20% archived after just a year and an
average of 27% lost and 41% archived after two and a half years.
Furthermore, we found a nearly linear relationship between time of
sharing of the resource and the percentage lost, with a slightly less
linear relationship between time of sharing and archiving coverage of
the resource. From this model we conclude that after the first year of
publishing, nearly 11% of shared resources will be lost and after that
we will continue to lose 0.02% per day.
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