Twitter dynamics How many tweets are retweeted how many tweets go viral video three

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Retweets are more "durable" than replies
much longer tail
while nearly a third of all tweets get retweeted less .3% get ten or more

92.4% of all retweets happen within the first hour of the original tweet being published, while an additional 1.63% of retweets happen in the second hour, and 0.94% take place in the third hour.
This means that if a tweet is not retweeted in the first hour, it is very likely that it will not be retweeted.
The graph below shows the fraction of tweets from the second hour onwards - the x-axis shows the time in hours since the original tweet, while the vertical axis shows the fraction of retweets within a particular hour. The 92.4% of all retweets, which happen within the first hour, are not displayed in the chart. 1.63% of retweets happen in the second hour, and 0.94% take place in the third hour.