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Digg Tries to Regain Its Momentum
- __Joker 16y agoAccessible only to members of NYT. Any other way to view it ?
- etm117 16y agoInteresting, it worked with no issues for me and I am not a member (confirmed as it still shows the "log in" link at the top).
- donohoe 16y agoClear cache try again. It happens from time to time - usually glitch and nothing sinister :)
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- __Joker 16y agoIts working. Would be interested to know why this is the case ?
- LiteOn 16y agoWhat junk is this? I need an account to view the second page?
- arn 16y agoSo, it's interesting they say their traffic died down due to lower Google ranking. One aspect that I don't know has been mentioned anywhere is the loss of traffic from blogs/news sites. As a news site owner, I stopped using Digg to try to promote stories when Twitter started rising in popularity. Digg's "Digg button" was very much a web1.0 "top site" pyramid scheme type promotion. Where you send your traffic to Digg, in the hope that you boost your rank and get traffic sent back to you. For digg, it worked for a while because Digg's aggregate traffic was greater than yours. What ended up wearing on me was the all-or-nothing effect of digg. Either your story made it, and you got a burst of traffic -- or it didn't, and you had nothing to show for sending them a bunch of traffic. Meanwhile, promoting your stories through Twitter has an incremental effect. Every re-tweet has some small value. There's no all-or-nothing to it.