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Does Digg still matter?

Source: Chris Charabaruk

Dec 23, 2008

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No doubt you know about Digg, the social news site that lets you "discover the best of the web". It's been a popular site since it first hit the scene four years ago. It's had its fair share of supporters and detractors along the way, from those who thought it would revolutionize news on the internet to those who claimed it to be a portal to clueless sensationalism. But now, does anyone even really care?

Twitter recently announced that Digg has come to the service, with fifteen different Twitter accounts to provide popular stories for various of the site's different categories. About the only discussion about this is on Digg itself, so far. On FriendFeed, all of two comments about this showed up, neither of them showing any interest in Digg at all. In fact, blogger Ari Herzog had this to say about Digg's new Twitter accounts: "Who's going to follow any of these 15 feeds? Not me."

I have a Digg account, and once and a while even use it. But lately, anything that I would have originally posted or voted on in Digg has seen me use Reddit inste

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Comments (3)

Lemonknickers,

Dec 24, 2008

I used digg more when the 'blog' function was one click away (now it's two clicks and doesn't always work) I used digg to auto post content to my blog, I've never used it for any other purpose and haven't read the instructions, I use delicious more these days and I'd probably use yahoo's buzz if it were more available as I'm tied into yahoo with BT so I'm always logged in.