What is Digg?87 Comments
- bjornski, on 06/02/2009, -1/+61Just like 10% of Diggers do 90% of the Digging. It's not a surprise.
- Sifl, on 06/02/2009, -9/+48Twitter is a fad.
- NathanielJ, on 06/02/2009, -2/+36Why are there studies conducted to find out information that Twitter could produce by entering 2 lines of SQL into their database?
Edit: No, scratch that. Why are there studies done about Twitter period? - EASwanson, on 06/02/2009, -2/+33Twitter: Top 10% of users do 90% of twating
Digg: Top 2% of users submit 98% of the stories that make it to the front page. - Aliwalla, on 06/02/2009, -6/+36Twitter is overrated.
- jojo77, on 06/02/2009, -12/+31F*ck Twitter!
- EASwanson, on 06/02/2009, -0/+17Braveheart007 A 21 year-old male who joined Digg on March 16th, 2009
Dugg: 6,489
That's a lot of diggin in less than 3 months.... - tzhu07, on 06/02/2009, -1/+14It doesn't surprise me. The top users who have a lot of people following them have greater motivation to use Twitter. If you're a nobody, it would just feel like talking to yourself.
- fuckingusername, on 06/02/2009, -5/+13studies say if you use twitter your a *****
- nepidae, on 06/02/2009, -0/+7why did you self censor?
- wukillabee, on 06/02/2009, -2/+9sounds an awful lot like a certain website.. hmm
- TEdwardK, on 06/02/2009, -7/+13Twitter sucks
- Shwaavay, on 06/02/2009, -2/+8Well then twitter should get all of their revenue from that 10%.
Just take away 50% of their tweets. - jugglingjon, on 06/02/2009, -0/+6What do you have to do to give it a chance? You sound like you're defending a person, and not an away-message service. You try it, and it appeals to you or it doesn't. This statistic tells the whole story, a lot of people signing up, but only a small subset of people are highly active.
I don't even think that you can compare the 90/10 ratio to digg, because you can use digg without submitting articles; so the 90% of people who aren't submitting on digg, could still be reading and commenting. Whereas I don't think twitter gets much use out of people who aren't active posters. - WhaneTheWhip, on 06/02/2009, -1/+6Now if can get people to stop tweeting useless stuff like how often they fart, that number might plummet even further.
- inactive, on 06/02/2009, -0/+5I see. Actually scratch that, what the hell are you talking about?
- puttly, on 06/02/2009, -0/+4The only reason for that statistics is because 50% of users on twitter signed up because Oprah told them too, then havn't touched their account since.
- TheEggAndI, on 06/02/2009, -2/+6that makes sense, considering i dont know a single person who uses twitter whatsoever. i honestly had no idea where this popularity came from.
- greenlight2001, on 06/02/2009, -1/+5"Gonna rub one out and head to bed."
- greenlight2001, on 06/02/2009, -1/+5"Wiped and got some on my fingers..."
- greenlight2001, on 06/02/2009, -1/+5"Time to poop."
- greenlight2001, on 06/02/2009, -1/+5"Going well... smells kind of funny though..."
- bjornski, on 06/02/2009, -0/+3http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/
- inactive, on 06/02/2009, -3/+6Oh, the horror!!! I'm pretty sure that most social websites are run by a very small percentage of their active users.
- dagamer34, on 06/02/2009, -2/+5Have you noticed the consistency of Twitter's reliability lately? Two more SQL commands for every user could bring the service down for good?
Or is that what you were planning? I see what you did there! - vinceislegend, on 06/02/2009, -2/+5That's a shame. I often become very frustrated when I find these people who aren't sharing every minute of their meaningless existence with me.
- DFunk1132, on 06/02/2009, -0/+2Thanks but I'm well aware of the intricate process of "tweeting".
My point is that the Digg power users provide content to the other 90%, whereas Twitter is mainly used as a vessel for people to spew ***** that nobody really cares about. Are there legitimate uses for Twitter? Of course. I think that news organisations have capitalized quite well on the whole microblogging thing, but apart from that I find it difficult to believe that Ashton Kutcher and Kanye West are providing useful content to the rest of the interwebs. - EASwanson, on 06/02/2009, -0/+2you're
- nydwarf, on 06/02/2009, -1/+3This just in 10% of all Twitter users are complete lusers.
- chrisxkelley, on 06/02/2009, -2/+4Power users exist... who would've thought?
- SeaSideClown, on 06/02/2009, -0/+2i twatted a few times, but then stop when i noticed that its just an old-people version of facebook.
- eadnams, on 06/02/2009, -0/+2Dfunk: I totally agree, and that's not what I use Twitter for(I feel that facebook status updates are far worse generally)...
Most of my twitter follows are people that live in this city, that I know. I get the feeling that my city is a little more unique that way. We go and *do things* all the time, we met on twitter, but we have real face-to-face relationships. My network is about 80% local friends, 10% web celebs/celebs(like the mythbusters guys, or Leo Laporte's posse) and 10% news/info aggregator(like local news, mashable, local fire rescue, etc). I also "find it difficult to believe that Ashton Kutcher and Kanye West are providing useful content to the rest of the interwebs." Thus, I don't follow them, I follow people that add value to my work or my life, or that I care about because I know them personally. - footbag01, on 06/02/2009, -0/+2What % are for business enterprises?
- GaltShrugged, on 06/02/2009, -0/+2A New study shows that the top 10% of twitter users have no life to tweet about, but they do it anyway.
- DFunk1132, on 06/02/2009, -0/+2way to waste time on studying something everyone knew already.
- DFunk1132, on 06/02/2009, -3/+5This is true, but at least the power users on Digg provide a service to the other 90%, instead of being self-involved narcisstic douchebags who feel that everyone with an internet connection cares about what they're doing RIGHT NOW.
- SkilledPrestO, on 06/02/2009, -0/+2lol, *****...
- inactive, on 06/03/2009, -0/+2People dislike Twitter for how its mainly used.
ie drinking my coffee now, eating a doughnut mmmm, going home, at work doing nothing, etc etc etc
That kind of twittering is ***** annoying and stupid as hell. But using Twitter for basically the same reasons why I use Digg makes it a pretty awesome tool.
But typical herd mentality makes it cool to hate things, so even when you show people that it doesn't have to be something stupid they'll still think its stupid. People are dumb, a person is smart. Best quote ever. - m0deth, on 06/03/2009, -0/+1I knew Twitter was doomed crap the second Penny Arcade made the "I'm a Twitter-*****!" strip...nuff said
- nard3456, on 06/03/2009, -0/+1***** the *****
- troymccluresf, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1Wow, it's like every website on the internet!
- MazeBot, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1not surprising, stat follows same models found in many thousands of other things of man made inbalance. nature actual tends to be more balanced
- pcpimpster, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1and those top 10% are spam bots.
- eadnams, on 06/03/2009, -0/+1Seems to work well for Digg article descriptions.
- 13letterslong, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1For any of these things there's going to be some value of x where x% of the people do 100-x% of the thing... the only interesting thing is where it falls between 50 (even spread - 50% do 50%), and 100 (total concentration, close to 0% do close to 100%)
- inactive, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1Twitter, facebook, etc are just feeding the narcissism in this country.
- sb66, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1No surprise. I always thought twitter was pretty useless. Aside from breaking news, it still is.
- Worldchrisis, on 06/02/2009, -2/+3It really is, it has no long term usefulness.
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