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The diminished discussion after a national tragedy -- how discussion of a major event slowly declines on social media each day (#reddit)

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How does that compare to sandy hook or pulse?

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Orlando "Pulse" Nightclub shooting (June 12, 2016). Looking at a one week period from the beginning to one week after shooting. "Orlando"

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Pulse - 5 days to hit 1k/peak frequency of posts. LV - 3 days. I suspect we are getting inured to this mass horror.

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Here's "Michael Jackson" when he passed away:

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It would probably be better to normalize for Reddit's traffic amounts throughout the day but I don't have that set up easily yet.