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Flocking Behavior and the Digg Effect in Social Media

nowsourcing.com — "The more I use and observe social media, the more it seems like psychology to me. I had the pleasure of attending SMX New York last week, and one of the highlights of it for me was listening in on the panel featuring the founders of Del.icio.us and StumbleUpon..."

Who dugg this? Made popular Oct 22, 2007

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  • babychen, on 10/29/2007, -1/+14Content might be outstanding, but if a newbie submits it, poof.
  • onreact, on 10/29/2007, -0/+7If the content contains the term "SEO" it won't make it. If it contains the terms "Apple, iPod, iPhone, Linux" or "naked" it will make it.
  • jj9000, on 10/29/2007, -1/+7All the cool kids are digging this story..
  • tavenger5, on 10/29/2007, -0/+3There are several ways to defeat the system. i.e. Crappy content designed to look like good content. Quality Spam?

    Here's a story that made it to the front page, but is absolutely false: http://digg.com/apple/Out_Of_A_Coma_Into_The_Apple ...
  • scyon, on 10/29/2007, -0/+3Don't forget Ubuntu ;)
  • kajoob, on 10/29/2007, -1/+3I refuse to change my flocking behavior.
  • natenovs, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2and ron paul
  • nowsourcing, on 10/23/2007, -0/+2What's really funny is that the Wikipedia definition for Digg Effect redirects to Slashdot effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg_effect
  • nowsourcing, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2lol, and (PICS)
  • jizzlies, on 10/23/2007, -0/+1I wonder why that is?
  • jizzlies, on 10/23/2007, -0/+1Good points
  • nowsourcing, on 10/22/2007, -0/+1NOOOOOOOOOOOO. never speak of it again!
  • MtheoryX, on 10/23/2007, -0/+1Maybe it's still called that. However, people who are writing articles for the express purpose of hitting the Digg front page would clearly want to say "Digg effect" instead.
  • inactive, on 10/29/2007, -2/+2I've always wondered why some stupid articles do well on Digg, while some great ones don't seem to rise up enough to be popular. I came across a Digg article that I thought was hilarious: http://digg.com/baseball/Bofa_D_s_releases_list_of ...
    but it doesn't have a lot of diggs yet. I'm guessing this flocking behavior might have something to do with it.
  • inactive, on 10/29/2007, -2/+2It's funny how it used to be called "getting slashdotted". Oh, how the mighty have fallen...
  • Agapytho, on 10/29/2007, -3/+0There will always be more idiots than intelligent people in the World.
    Because it's easy.
    Obviously for an intelligent person this can appear senseless, because it is fought from within.
    But to those who do not care, go "yuck yuck", and digg it.
    Simple.

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