"digital decay" meaning in English

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          "text": "To understand how digital decay manifests on social media, Pew collected a real-time sample of tweets from the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) during spring 2023 and monitored them for three months. They discovered that: […] Nearly 20% of tweets are no longer publicly visible just months after being posted.",
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