Twitter Data Suggest Dwindling Interest In The Daily

Little solid information is available about the performance of The Daily, Rupert Murdoch’s iPad-based publication that debuted Feb. 3 and costs 99 cents a week. But Joshua Benton of the Nieman Journalism Lab came up with one way to guess at its traffic: tracking the number of tweets generated by Daily readers who are sharing its content via Twitter.

It’s not perfect, but app download numbers are shaky, and News Corp. is staying tight-lipped so far.

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