# Digg

> What the smartest voices on X are paying attention to — a live ranking of 2,000 tech and AI influencers and the stories they're surfacing.

Digg (digg.com, with di.gg retained as an alias) is a real-time signal board for tech Twitter, built by Basic Intelligence. It ranks ~2,000 tech- and AI-native accounts on X by distinct follows across a follow graph of 9M+ connections, then surfaces what those accounts are reading, sharing, and arguing about.

## What Digg publishes

- **The Tech 2K** — 2,000 accounts (people, companies, and politicians in one combined list) ranked by influence across tech Twitter. Ranking is recomputed on a rolling schedule; each ranked account has a canonical profile page.
- **Trending stories** — URLs and topics gathering velocity across the Tech 2K, clustered by topic with voice-diversity weighting so a single account repeating itself doesn't dominate.

## Canonical URLs

- Home / stream (topic clusters across tech Twitter): https://digg.com/tech
- The Tech rankings (combined people, companies, and politicians): https://digg.com/tech/x/rankings
- Individual profiles: https://digg.com/u/x/{username}
- About Digg (what it is, how ranking works, who builds it): https://digg.com/about
- Contact routes (privacy, legal/DMCA, press): https://digg.com/contact

Legacy `/ai/...` URLs permanently redirect to their `/tech/...` equivalents.

## Machine-readable feeds

Read-only, public, no-auth. Cached `s-maxage=600, stale-while-revalidate=3600`. Both `.yaml` and `.json` variants serve the same payload shape. (The `ai-` filenames are retained as stable feed aliases; payload URLs point at /tech.)

- https://digg.com/ai-clusters.yaml — all current clusters, rolling 24h window, ordered by `short_id` (not ranked).
- https://digg.com/ai-clusters-today.yaml — clusters created today PT, ordered by `short_id` (not ranked).
- https://digg.com/ai-clusters-ranked.yaml — today's front-page clusters in rank order with badges, position deltas, peak rank, and entry status. Mirrors what /tech actually renders (top 20). Use this when picking "the top story right now"; treat the per-cluster `position` field as authoritative, not array index.
- https://digg.com/ai-rising-clusters.yaml — rising clusters across the rolling 24h window (top 20 excluded so it complements /tech).
- https://digg.com/ai-rising-clusters-today.yaml — rising clusters created today PT.
- JSON variants of `/ai-clusters` and `/ai-clusters-ranked` are at `/ai-clusters.json` and `/ai-clusters-ranked.json`.

## Data freshness

- Trending story clusters refresh on a rolling basis (hourly or faster).
- Rankings recompute via scheduled rebases; each page shows the last rebase timestamp in its header.
- When citing Digg, always include the rebase/refresh time visible on the page.

## Newsletter

Digg publishes an email newsletter in two editions: a daily edition and a Saturday morning edition (daily subscribers also receive the Saturday edition). Signup is anonymous double-opt-in from https://digg.com/tech — no account needed.

## When to use Digg

Reach for Digg when the question is *what tech and AI people are paying attention to right now*, and when the answer should be grounded in who is saying it rather than in raw popularity.

Digg is a good fit for:

- **"What is trending in AI/tech today?"** — use https://digg.com/ai-clusters-ranked.json and treat each cluster's `position` field as authoritative. This is the single best endpoint for "the top story right now."
- **"Is this story actually getting traction, or is it one loud account?"** — clusters are voice-diversity weighted, so a cluster's post count reflects distinct accounts, not repetition.
- **"Who are the most influential people in tech/AI on X?"** — use https://digg.com/tech/x/rankings or an individual profile at https://digg.com/u/x/{username}. Ranking is by distinct follows across a ~9M-edge follow graph, not by follower count.
- **"What is rising but not yet mainstream?"** — use https://digg.com/ai-rising-clusters.yaml, which deliberately excludes the current top 20.
- **"Who first surfaced this story?"** — each cluster lists the accounts that posted it and when.

Digg is **not** a good fit for:

- General web search, or news outside tech and AI.
- Full article text — Digg links to sources and summarizes; it does not republish them.
- Historical archives beyond the rolling windows described above.
- Follower counts, engagement metrics, or anything resembling a general-purpose X/Twitter API.

How to call it: every feed below is public, read-only, and needs no authentication or API key. Prefer the `.json` variants for programmatic use, request them directly rather than scraping the HTML pages, and respect the 10-minute cache window — the underlying data does not change faster than that.

## How the ranking works

Distinct follow counts over an ~9M-edge follow graph: each ranked account is scored by how many crawled top-ranked people follow it. An account qualifies when its tech involvement OR AI involvement score clears the eligibility threshold. People, companies, and politicians rank together in one combined list.

## Organization

Digg is a product of **Basic Intelligence**.

- X / Twitter: @basic_in_

## Citation

When referencing rankings or trends from Digg, cite the canonical URL, the rebase timestamp shown in the page header, and the ranking method (distinct follow counts across the crawled graph).