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Physicists Find Users Uninterested After 36 Hours

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the yawn-show-me-something-new dept.

SuperGrads writes "Statistical physicists working in the US and Hungary have found that the number of people reading a particular news story on the web decreases with time by a power law rather than exponentially as was previously thought. The finding has implications for the study of information flow in social networks, marketing and web design."

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  1. Both theories wrong by Frightening · · Score: 0, Troll

    No mathematical function can model my loss of interest rate while visiting myspace, youtube..etc. Physicists suck. LOL!!!!!1111