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Re: Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch

seanphurley — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:57:31 -0000

for shame, digg. Twitter is growing like crazy! At their current, respective rates of growthTwitter will be doing 68% of the monthly traffic facebook does by 2010 -

http://www.economixt.com/20...

Re: Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch

CosmicChuck — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:35:56 -0000

If Digg really wants to keep visitors, they would:
1) make their web site user-friendly,
2) support IE8

About the only thing I've been able to do on their site successfully was register as a new user. I was using IE7. IE8 hadn't been released yet. I've never been able to successfully Digg anything, regardless of what browser I was using. I don't Digg Digg. I can't update my email account even using a browser they do support. If Digg goes the way of the dinosaur, I certainly won't miss it. That would be one less bookmark to store.

Re: Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch

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Re: Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch

camp185 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:29:25 -0000

I'm sure one of the biggest problems for Digg is keeping the visitor. If you look at the html you can see a java onclick script directing the clicker to some crazy ID number. It appears to link directly. I'm wondering how Google sees these links? Will it pass PR if you digg article makes it to page one? If I were digg I wouldn't mess around with redirects.

Re: Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch

CosmicChuck — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:06:38 -0000

I never got the DiggBar to work; it never did anything right. 10 minutes was sufficient time to figure out that it was not just useless; it was counterproductive. So I sent it to the Bit Bucket where it could cause no harm.

Re: Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch

Douglas Karr — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:01:35 -0000

I've honestly never seen good growth in relevant traffic from Digg. This is a pretty outrageous strategy... looks like they're taking a lesson from Enron. Keep inflating until it all comes crashing down.

Re: Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch

Nathan — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:32:39 -0000

wow, how'd you figure that out?

Re: Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch

brennannovak — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:17:51 -0000

I feel like generating "DIGG centric" traffic has always been at the forefront of DIGG's design, ui, and functionality. I like DIGG. It's a cool concept. But the fact that any interaction with ranking or visiting must always be done on their site, while you are logged in, the complete utter lack of a good API, all point to this. If DIGG had their wits about them and an ounce of courage they would made their service function more like DISQUS... but something makes me feel like their investors wouldn't bankroll those sort of ideas.

Re: Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch

Noah Kane — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:09:14 -0000

This is ridiculous. Digg knows exactly what it is doing...it's not a newcomer to the web, and wouldn't unintentionally direct traffic to its own site.

Re: Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch

billc124 — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:59:34 -0000

Just one more reason to avoid Digg. Their are far better ways of keeping up with news stories then Digg anyway.

Re: Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch

RWK: disruptive tech/guerrilla — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:54:00 -0000

Eh. Kill the web. I'd rather go back to farming and a home cooked meal by my hot pregnant wife.

Re: Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch

tFeeder — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:38:30 -0000

WHO CARES???
Digg is dead, long live the new king of traffic generation: TWITTER!!

Re: Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch

Brad F. — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:23:30 -0000

Funny how you implied someone should Digg or not Digg an article before actually reading it...

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vince jelenic — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:22:37 -0000

There is a biz opportunity here for software to create self-hosted url shorteners.

A simple php script, web page or whatever? something you can control.
I'm in process of beginning to think of how to do here at home.
Would be nice as standalone app, or maybe tab web page.

offsite url-shorteners should be seen as short term solution
a biz should take control of it's own.

Re: Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch

Brad F. — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:21:22 -0000

Simple solution = Stop Using Digg Short URLs. Ta-dah!

Re: Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch

jpatters — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:21:06 -0000

It all depends on if the short code has d1 or d2. Check out http://digg.com/d1xP0g & http://digg.com/d2xP0g

Re: Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch

jpatters — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:19:09 -0000

It all depends on if the short code has d1 or d2. Check out http://digg.com/d1xP0g & http://digg.com/d2xP0g

Re: Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch

Gaby — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:17:09 -0000

I don't like the digg bar, I set my preferences to not load the bar. Why don't I like it? Because I want to be on the publisher's site, not on digg. Even if I get the same content, I really don't like top bars that keep you own their domain. It really has the feeling of getting in the way of browsing.

As to the redirection of logged out users, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if it's deliberate. Look at it from their point of view; it gets more people onto their site and signing up (at least they probably believe it gets more people to sign up, but most likely it just pushes more people away)

Re: Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch

Randolph Rankin — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:08:20 -0000

Doesn't Facebook do this as well with their 'Link' feature?

Screenshots (of this article) and the Facebook 'Bar.'
http://i25.tinypic.com/2qvh... - Same deal. Opening page in a frame...
http://i28.tinypic.com/v5fz... - ...hosted on Facebook.

Re: Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch

vetinary — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:05:58 -0000

can anyone PLEASE tell me how to uninstall Digg bar from my MacBook??? please?

Re: Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch

LouCypher — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:00:40 -0000

If you shorten a URL using DiggBar API, the shortened URL won't use toolbar/frame <del>and will redirect you to the original URL</del>, whether you logged in to Digg or not.

edit:
Looks like I was wrong. They really changed it.
If someone submitted the original URL to Digg, the shortened URL will redirect you to Digg.

Re: Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch

Bob West — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:57:47 -0000

Digg knows exactly what they're doing; it's simply a new angle. Since the change, I find myself less likely to click on Digg links, knowing that I'm going to have to click again after their cluttered page loads. Digg needs to understand that link shortening can't be their main method of driving traffic to their site. Hopefully they'll wake up and smell the potted pork product soon.

Re: Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch

chrisfizik — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:57:30 -0000

this is ridiculous .....if you're following a digg shortened link, why wouldn't you end up on the digg site....you get the opportunity to digg the link yourself and then, if you're actually really interested in the content you're going to click through to the story anyways...no big deal; the blogs and sites are still getting their traffic ..and if they don't want Digg being in the middle there, well, then why are they or their users using digg urls!?

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Re: Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch

Mike Langford — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:53:42 -0000

I wonder though, if the people who are using Digg's URL shortener are doing so with intent to encourage other users who might click on the link to Digg the link they shared? If so, it seems that Digg has created a mechanism by which people who click on the link are guaranteed to be presented with a Digg opportunity.

I know if I used the Digg URL shortener I'd be hoping others would Digg my post. Not sure I see anything overtly malicious here.