Never put off till tomorrow, what you can tweet today Or: How quickly research papers spread on Twitter – Altmetric

"Tweets linking to scientific articles occur shortly after publication and Twitter activity often runs dry a few days later. The short-lived attention points to Twitter being used to spread the word about new publications rather than discussing them in-depth, as we discussed in last week’s blog post. In today’s post, we will analyze the temporal patterns of Twitter activity. As in the previous posts in this series, I will illustrate Twitter metrics based on a forthcoming book chapter using data from Altmetric’s Researcher Data Access Program."