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After Trump, the attention economy deflates
Scott Rosenberg
Politicians, celebrities and business leaders are trying to adapt to a new world beyond the attention inflation of the Trump era — one where the volume of attention-getting statements and actions has dropped and the value and impact of individual events may rise.
Why it matters: Donald Trump used social media to provoke and distract Americans around the clock, rewiring the country's nervous system and diminishing the value of each individual news cycle. Now we're going to learn whether our fried collective circuits can recover.
By the numbers: Over the first two weeks of February, there were an estimated 13.8 million social media posts about President Biden, according to data from Keyhole.
That's roughly an eighth of the 104 million posts about Trump over the first two weeks of January.
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https://www.axios.com/attention-economy-after-trump-bfa0ef27-b10d-432a-a40a-6bb642424709.html
