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Information types and characteristics

More contextual information - more TTL. NB! Not always.

Different types of information differentiated by a human. It's clearly can be seen that it's ordered by the quantity of information.

  • Chat (messages)
  • Microblog (and replies)
  • Wall post (and comments)
  • Forum topic (and answers or replies); also named as Group, Discussion, Question
  • Blog (and comments)
  • Article (and comments)
  • Book (reviews)

Characteristics of the textual information:

Differs in a time:

  • Actualization of a context in a time (Time to live, (trend (buzz) / stable): past, current and future (number of people - interest)
  • Valid / not valid
  • Free / paid

Static:

  • Subjective / objective
  • Quantity of information
  • Quality of information

Mutation properties:

  • Modification
  • Deletion
  • Addition
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