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Everything about Digg

Social media/news aggregator website

Digg is an American social bookmarking news aggregator, with a feed that displays the internet's most popular content, Newest, Trending, and content that’s "Heating up." It was re-launched in its second-to-current form in June 2025, and its current form in May 2026. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: DiggA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Qualitätsregister 2.0 – Wo stehen wir heute mit dem DIGG und wo wollen wir morgen hin?Influential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: The Degge family of Staffordshire, England, and the American branchesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Information Contagion: An Empirical Study of the Spread of News on Digg and Twitter Social NetworksCited 410 times
  5. Go sideways: Kevin RoseA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Alexis OhanianA closely related topic

📖 Definitions

Noun Alternative form of dig (“a duck”).

🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. History
  2. Criticism and controversies

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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