Tweets Are Not Forever: We're Losing 11% Of Our Digital History Every Year

If you’re under the impression that once something is put on the web it’s there forever, you might be mistaken. New research suggests that when it comes to major events documented on social media, we’re losing up to 11 percent of our content every year.

Prominent cultural events like the Egyptian uprising in early 2011 and Michael Jackson’s death were recently examined by a group of researchers to see how their digitally-archived history holds up.