The last time Digg officially announced how many registered users it has was back in March when it passed the one-million mark. Now, programming sleuth John Graham-Cunning extracted registration dates from Digg user profile pages to come up with an estimate of 2.7 million registered Digg users. Some of the key inflection points came in June, 2006 when Digg expanded beyond technology to cover world news and entertainment, and in December, 2006 when it added video links. The makeover in August, 2007 seems to have helped as well. At this rate, Digg should surpass the three-million user mark by March, 2007.
Here is Graham-Cunning’s unofficial chart of Digg registered user growth:
These are just registered users. And we don’t know how many are active, but you need to be a registered user to participate in the Digg community (i.e. to submit stories and vote them up the page). Digg’s overall traffic is higher. According to comScore, it peaked in October, 2007 at 6.3 million unique visitors in the U.S., and came down a little to about 6 million in December (this dip might be seasonal due to college students being on break for the holidays). Worldwide traffic in December was about twice that number in December.
1 word = Sick! I wonder how their new algorithm’s working out?
who gives a sh*t about Digg. Puurleeese…
worst algorithm ever seen, all are fake accounts to make their story to front page.i wil submit dis to Digg let me c whether new user can make the story to front…..
I think you mean March 2008, not March 2007 as stated for the 3-year mark.
I still don’t understand what Digg is for. I never came across a single interesting story there which I hadn’t seen yet ages ago.
Digg use to be cool, before everyone used it. Now it more or less sucks.
i am registered as well but i never go back after i registered.
I would say a large amount of new accounts over the last couple years are splogger/scraper/spammers that are trying to game the system. I know there were some blackhat initiatives off-and-on during that time frame trying to game their system. Same goes for mySpace (and probably Facebook as we speak as things turn more “mySpace-esque”).
Why do you need to be a “programming sleuth” to figure this out? Digg’s own API tells you how many users there are. See http://services.digg.com/users.....c.digg.com — according to Digg’s own data there are 2,211,964 users.
1 question: when access to digg and I do click in Login the screen is left in white… this thing happens to somebody more?
This is for proof ,If this same article submitted by top diggers like Mr babyman or msaleem or…….it would ve got more than 500 diggs in first five min,but i got only countable no of diggs.
Although I still use Digg, I think it has lost it’s spark. It seems only a handful of users get to be on the front-page everyday.
Watch the new emerging social bookmarking website.
Social bookmarking website for videos,news & pictures.
http://popdup.com
I was never able to get into Digg. I agree with @5 and @7, I haven’t found any interesting new stories on it that I haven’t already heard and I registered for it last year, and never even used it or have logged back in, since.
Personally, I prefer Diigo as my social bookmark site of choice. StumbleUpon isn’t too far behind that.
I always take registered figures with a pinch of salt. If we take Digg as an example over the last 2 years I have registered and confirmed atleast 6-8 accounts and it only takes 5 minutes to register a handfull of accounts.
How many other users out there have registered many multiple account ?
good or not, Kevin R. earns his money with Digg (:
I can not explain that it would be so bad if they tripled the number of users
They seem a ver forward company
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@13 popdup?
Come on man, you’re not even trying. What did you do, search and replace “digg” to “popdup” on the digg source code? I mean, even the color scheme is the same. Really, really sad.
His name is “John Graham-Cumming” not “John Graham-Cunning”.
how does techcrunch afford a comscore account?
You guys should check out http://tiinker.com Its a much better method of personalised news aggregation than Digg.
Very interesting things are happening around Digg at the moment.
First, they changed the news voting algorithm to avoid the group votes and make newdiggers’ life easier.
Second, Elite Digg-ers cried against this change.
Third, Digg community responded with the Yahoo! Pipe which shows the Diggs from Elite Digg Crybabies.
Digg is changing.