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Monday, August 30

Digg Users Are Revolting — But Literally This Time

I liked the new way Digg was going to be doing things.. but then they launched.



How are they going to survive this?

Amplify’d from gigaom.com

After a problem-plagued relaunch of the link-sharing site last week, some Digg users seem to have taken matters into their own hands, and have been voting up — or “digging” — links from competitor Reddit.com as a way of showing their displeasure with the new version of the site. By noon on Monday, nine out of the top 10 links for the previous 24 hours came from Reddit (the only one that didn’t was a sponsored link), and most of them had been voted up over 1,000 times. The revolt even spawned a hashtag on Twitter: #diggrevolt.

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