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- DforSpiD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Well yeah, but it takes us a while, we only have two computers in Australia you see, and 5 million teenage girls use one of them to update their myspace... The other doesn't have the internet...
- kcpwnsgman, on 10/12/2007, -6/+23Digg whore complaints = Digg whore
- BuddyDoQ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Funny, because here I am via Firefox on a Mac. I don't count, twice!
- CraigB12, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I would bet that the majority of digg's users use Firefox/opera/mac, so at least double that.
- GopherGod, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11I hope you know that both comScore and Nielsen//Netratings are basically surveys. They are done by sampling a section of the US.
Estimates.. GUESSES.
This is probably a logical estimate of how they are doing, but it might be more off than you think. - GopherGod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@ilyag
I am not saying they are bad estimates, but after working for two online companies that data doesn't even come close to matching.
I work in analytics for a very very large internet company.
The internet is soooooooooooo diverse it simple is very hard to sample like television or magazines. There are just far less choice in magazines and tv channels.
That is just not true online. Also, Nielsen does a very poor job at getting into peoples work internet habits and measuring college kids. Most companies do not want Nielsen software recording data. College kids are just too hard to track down, and they are they use the internet more than any other user.
I am sorry... from my experience, the data is a good at looking at Macro trends... but poor at being highly reliable data, especially for something like Digg. - hiPpymIck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5maybe he means when it suddenly goes out of service without warning
(usually after youve just typed the best comment ever
on a story thats just hit front page
but you havent yet hit the submit button) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I agree with Nougat's agreement with 1krazykorean's agreement with DoctorSax.
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I agree with 1krazykorean's agreement with DoctorSax.
- AWBoy666, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Did they actually mean 2007 or is this data a year old?
- 6ixed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I am curious to know that how many users are visiting Digg from a foreign country, like say Australia or UK. I think there're a certain number of users of UK (and Australia too) who visit this site on a regular basis, by going by their comments.
- interiot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Why does comScore fail to count Firefox users properly? The author doesn't explain why that might be the case. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComScore suggests that all Windows users are counted.
- GopherGod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2MORE...
Just think about your work habits on the internet.... and if Nielsen or comScore did a poor job of representing that data... huge data could be lost for how people read NEWS (like we are all doing right now) and weather.... things like that. - dorey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Does this mean more than 50% of Digg users don't register or digg anything- they just browse?
( http://digg.com/tech_news/1_Miiiiiillion_Users ) - greatromance, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Alexa should get their numbers a bit more accurate. Compete it.
- Enfenestrate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've only been coming here regularly for a few weeks, and I've seen it go down half a dozen times already. Some of those times it was only for a couple of minutes, but it was down nonetheless. I'd say, even from my limited experience with the site, that it goes down a good bit. But it's a busy site, that's to be expected.
Maybe this has just been a bad month. Who knows? - ThirdPrize, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I am from the UK. I check it out first thing in the morning and (if im bored at work) a couple of times during the day. I think there is a few of us reading it here but there never really seems to be much activity until the US comes on line. Then the stories really start rolling just as we go home.
- rshu4you, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3There are people outside of the US????
/sarcasm - Soldan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1as for me being cool..never claimed to be...
In fact i am really uncool... I am just to lazy to find a new place to be... - lukas88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lets face it, every time a company comes out with data worth celebrating, some nerd comes along and wants to rain on their parade. You are right, the numbers probably aren't as promising as they seem. But this is pretty much the same thing as going to the bar on friday when everyone is partying and shouting "you all have to go back to work in just two days!"
Let me say it another way: Don't be a buzzkill. - antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1***** this, I'm pro Skub!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1news is lame, the majority of it is useless information,
they should bulid the latest technological news into morpgames - glasgowm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I can't remember the last time digg went down. What are you talking about
- CraigB12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@wooism
I use digg on firefox from both work and home... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this graph could be interpreted as 'digg peaked' even though more data could be needed.
- jonathanchong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Comscore are known within the advertising industry as having highly-inflated figures. Take this with a huge pinch of salt.
- MisterMocie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's interesting. I've never experienced Digg going down before
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If it was "actual" buzz then sure. It's not. It's just manufactured ***** designed to game digg users into a circlejerk. Works like a charm every time too.
- Lexor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ironically Digg's growth may be exacerbating its problems. With so many more users, it is nearly impossible to have a story viewed by more than a few people before it falls victim to the "story push" that is described in this article: http://grog.ca/digg_effects.html
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3How is it hard to sample? You buy logs from ISP's and analyse them.
Anyway I get the feeling that while digg is growing slowly some important factors are conveniently overlooked.
There's a million rows of data in the users table but how many active users? Under 2000 stories are submitted a day which means on any day, at the absolute most, 0.2% of digg's users submit something.
I'm sure a large percentage only vote or post comments but I really doubt 99.8% of digg's users only come here for the discussion. I would be surprised if less than half of digg's users are from people with multiple accounts.
Another thing to factor in is what pageviews are they counting? When you go to some article that embeds the "digg this" chicklet you rack up a pageview on digg.com. A popular site putting that chicklet on their articles could account for tens of thousands of pageviews and the first chicklet someone sees on another site can be considered a unique visitor. - GopherGod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I personally think the numbers are low....
- god4twenty, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@soldan
"look at me... I am tredy because i read and post of digg..sheesh.. the really "cool" people moved on."
and yet you are still here. - GopherGod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My last company used comScore, and I couldn't access their internet data website on firefox.
So I imagine the recording software could have the same troubles? - LegendarySock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yup, social freeloaders. I guess they're just lazy.
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I wonder how/if this "reference source for advertisers" is counting AdBlock users?
- brainxs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Not very clever post, but... I couldn't see any graphics in IE7 or FF.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Adblock users are nowhere near as important as they like to think.
- Amoeba16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, no kidding. Tech savvy users tend to use Firefox, and anyone who browses the comments regularly KNOWS what a bias there is toward Mac users.
With those two elements uncounted (or only partly counted) the measurement borders on moot. - MrKite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Well since this is a site that attracts computer savvy people, 100% of digg's viewers use ad blockers. :D
- limxdul, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1digg+revision3 or joost?
which one i wonder will win the most users in a year or two. - Wooism, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Not very accurate at all. However If you exclude the Firefox and Mac users, but you are counting in people that visit from work and then from home (just one person) then you kind of balance it out.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5These are not simple guesses, you dolt. This is called STATISTICS. It is a mathematical science, and is proven to be extremely accurate within a certain specific margin of error, usually in single-digit percentage points.
Go to college if you can't understand why this is a sufficiently reliable way of measurement. - Soldan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2how is this news...
look at me... I am tredy because i read and post of digg..sheesh.. the really "cool" people moved on.
you folks are just jealous that your mommies will not let you drink beer like guys when they do diggnation.. - maxtothe, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Compete.com shows 9.0 million U.S. visitors in Jan. (rank 92) and Quantcast shows 4.8 million monthly visitors (rank 181). I'm ignoring Alexa, since it greatly overestimates the reach of tech/webmaster related sites.
- keyboardduder, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2lol, dig self congratulation
- 1KrazyKorean, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Agree with DoctorSax
- bstolzberg, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1It doesn't matter how much traffic you get when the site goes down as often as it does :(
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Firefox and Mac users are irrelevant.
- alfalpha, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2The report forgot to mention that most of those accounts are actually Michael Arrington:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/07/digg-hits-1-million-registered-users/ - mickeyknoxxx, on 10/12/2007, -33/+8Digg articles on Digg = Digg whore
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