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Digg Overtakes Facebook with 1400% Growth, 22.6 Million Uniques
- marcamillion 14y agoIn the blink of an eye, in internet years.
- VictorZ 14y agoGo ahead. Rub it in.
- sukuriant 14y agoFascinating to see Digg coming back from the grave, so to speak. I didn't see this coming. Er... Fascinating to see such an old article come up on Hackernews without the age of the article in parenthesis. That's a derp.
- fletchowns 14y agoEhhh...what?
- christiangenco 14y agoRichard Macmanus, at ReadWriteWeb, on June 20th, 2007:
- nmridul 14y agoThe article submitted to HN is new. But in it he quoted a 2007 article. The slogan of his blog speaks for itself ...
- dredmorbius 14y agoSic transit gloria lacinia felis.
- rdg 14y agoReally? In which parallel universe?
- dennisgorelik 14y agoMore recent data shows nosedive: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/digg.com/ http://siteanalytics.compete.com/digg.com/
- carsongross 14y agoIt's a crazy world out there, kids: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1850428 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1850428 Try not to let it bother you too much.
- therealarmen 14y agoIt's a fun exercise, but we all know how reliable Compete is for quantitative traffic comparisons. For example, Compete currently claims Reddit (http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com/ http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com/) has less traffic than Digg (http://siteanalytics.compete.com/digg.com/ http://siteanalytics.compete.com/digg.com/). I sincerely doubt Digg surpassed Facebook's traffic at any point in the company's lifetime.
- jedberg 14y agoCompete just makes numbers up. Those uniques are so far off for reddit it isn't even funny.
- crash013 14y agoWhy did you let the reddit community turn to shit?
- oconnor0 14y agoThat's a very strong claim. What evidence do you have for it?
- waterside81 14y agoHe used to work there. He knew the real traffic numbers.
- azylman 14y agoProbably that whole "being one of the original members of the Reddit team" thing. But, you know, I could be wrong.
- oconnor0 14y agoAh, yes, thanks, that isn't obvious. No need to be snotty about it.
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- vlad 14y agoVery misleading quote. The full article features disbelief about Compete.com numbers, so it seems as much a critique of Compete.com as it does a story about Digg. Since I ended up reading the article, I have to wonder if Compete counted Digg buttons on blogs as visits. Facebook, of course, did not even get a Share/Like button until 2.5 years later in late 2009 (http://mashable.com/2009/10/26/facebook-share-buttons/ http://mashable.com/2009/10/26/facebook-share-buttons/) It would be easy to get millions of daily uniques if popular newspapers all request your script or image in every article, and sites like Compete don't properly take social buttons into account. (It's interesting that recent articles have debated if Facebook itself now counts the display or click of a Like button as a visit.)
- jere 14y agoIs anyone else hoping to read the same article in 5 years but about Facebook?
- zalew 14y agothat guy using diaspora (I've heard of him, he must exist somewhere)
- josephcooney 14y ago<something funny about google plus here>
- ck2 14y agoWasn't it the redesign that started the avalanche of people leaving? Or am I mistaken? Maybe if they had just left it alone and did gradual tweaks instead...
- notatoad 14y agoNo maybe about it. Digg lost their market by messing with their product. It's an interesting case, because you can make a direct comparison with reddit: two nearly identical products serving the same market started at the same time. Digg tried to grow too fast and failed, reddit grew at its natural pace and succeeded.
- dmix 14y agoI don't know... I was part of a big migration to reddit around 2008-2009. I remember there being tons of threads on Reddit of ex-diggers making fun of Digg around then. There were frequent posts daily about the complete degradation of quality on Digg back then. The running joke was all the posts on Digg's current frontpage were from Reddits frontpage yesterday. The redesign (in 2010) was the nail in the coffin.
- notatoad 14y agoI was on reddit for a couple years before that. The jokes about digg's quality certainly didn't begin in 2008.
- earino 14y agoAs I see it the basic problem was one of name. Who wants to be a digger? It sounds fancy pants to be a redditor.
- mkramlich 14y agoThis re-emphasizes one of my own personal rules of entrepreneurship: when someone offers you a FU money exit, and you don't already have FU money, you take it. You take it and walk. Because if you don't, you might regret it, and who knows what the future will bring. After you reach FU money, it's not like you can't go and try building another new product/service/website/gadget again -- you can, except you'll be starting from a much safer and happier place, with more resources, connections, eyeballs, etc.
- unreal37 14y agoI think Kevin Rose is doing OK. He has FU money.
- dangerboysteve 14y agoWhat a total BS blog post with no real data