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Digg users twice as likely to bury CNN than BBC (via @adamsherk)

Posted on 24. Jul, 2009 by Andrew.

Adam Sherk works in the industry. He helps publishers and other content providers with SEO and social media. As a result he’s pretty interested in Digg and he’s done some clever research.
Adam used di66.net’s list of top sources in Digg for the last 30 days http://di66.net/top-sites-30d-by-posts.html and fished out the news sites. Next he used [...]

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Beaten up by the DiggBar

Posted on 20. Jul, 2009 by Andrew.

People said it could happen but it many of us are surprised it did happen. This includes Kevin Rose, Digg’s founder, who tweeted to say he wasn’t aware of the change.
So; what did happen?
Digg launched their URL shortener into a storm of controversy. Rather than simply redirecting users on to their final destination (like most [...]

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