Do You Digg Or Do You Tweet?
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When I added the TweetMeme plugin to my site, I never gave it any thought that one day it would come down to this. That the mighty social bookmarking site Digg had a true competitor that didn’t even start out as a giant slayer. But, according to these figures and charts I got from Quantcast, Digg is facing a real challenge in the social book marking arena.
Digg vs. TweetMeme?
In less than a year, TweetMeme visits have shot up from just a few thousand visitors a month to over 5 million visitors a month! That’s a phenomenal jump for TweetMeme. I’ve seen my traffic grow exponentially in the last month alone just from using the TweetMeme plugin. Retweeting is more accessible when a visitor likes your content, they just click on the “Retweet” button next to the post. It offers ease of use and is really functional. Take a look at the charts and graphs from Quantcast relating to their growth and compare it to the charts and graphs for TweetMeme:
For Digg:
What is becoming apparent is that the opportunity to go viral is more likely from TweetMeme. Back in the day (just a year ago) in internet time, getting to the front page of Digg could mean an onslaught of traffic that might cause your server to crash. It was not unheard of for bloggers to boast about the amount of traffic they got from one story going ballistic on Digg. But that would soon change. Just like a candle that burns out when its done, those same bloggers were also complaining about not making any money or receiving any ‘clicks’ from any of the Digg traffic. Digg traffic was soon categorized as a one night stand.
Another blemish attributed to Digg was the so-called Digg Bury Brigade. Supposedly, there was this anonymous group of Diggers that would ‘bury’ your story if they didn’t like you, didn’t like your site, or just felt like it. Users began complaining so much that many of the power Diggers left and went to other social bookmarking sites.
With TweetMeme, there isn’t a bury brigade (at least not that I know of). TweetMeme has the potential to work faster than Digg because of its explosively viral nature. If you’ve got thousands of followers, what’s the chance of at least 1% of them retweeting you? It sounds wild, but its true.
After looking at these charts, what do you think? Do you Digg or do you Tweet?
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When I added the TweetMeme plugin to my site, I never gave it any thought that one day it would come down to this. That the mighty social bookmarking site Digg had a true competitor that didn’t even start out as a giant slayer….
Hey that is interesting.
What is even more interesting to me is the income Gap. MiddleClass-Joe, is nowhere to be found on Digg. What happen there? Segregation of the Rich vs. Poor? Perhaps a Socio-Economic Disparity that coincides with the Mafia-like attributes of the current hierarchy of the brigade vs the common folk?? ?
Tony
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Exactly Tony. Often if you read the comments on Digg you get the feeling of a class system underlying the actions of some Diggers. Thanks for commenting buddy!!
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Of course I do both! Digg and Twitter bring in two very different traffic streams, although Twitter is much more targeted visitors and makes a lot more sense. Digg is like hitting into the dark – you may find some good traffic, some bad traffic, but ultimately it’s just a large wave
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Hi there Inside the Webb, I agree, Twitter is much much more targeted and it makes better sense to me to use Twitter for the targeted visitors. Digg is just for the sake of being on Digg. Its true Digg is like a shot in the dark, and I believe that being indexed on Digg is an asset to the Google bots. Thanks for dropping by.
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Yes you are right digg like social network are some risky, I have listen that some famous website like johncow.com, digitalpoint forum also banned from digg, but there is no risk on twitter, Just write some nice article get shared on twitter.So I also prefer tweetme than digg.
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Wow, chandan, I didn’t know that digitalpoint forum was banned from Digg. Wow, that’s exactly the point I was trying to make with this article, Digg is like a mafia at times.
Teasastips´s last blog ..Do You Digg Or Do You Tweet?
Yes Teasastips, so digg is the boss of all social networking sites.
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Well chandan, for now it is, but who is to say that will last?