Most Popular Sharing Sites
In the past week ShareThis has released data showing their most popular Sharing Services during January 2009. The data are illustrated below in the chart provided by ShareThis. The results are likely an accurate reflection of the various sharing services popularity on the web as a whole as ShareThis is extremely popular:
- Email is by far most popular sharing service getting 57%.
- Facebook is the second most popular sharing service at 21%
- Digg has dropped significantly in popularity to 2%
AddThis used to provide similar data but unfortunately has ceased to provide this information. Thanks to Sharethis for sharing the data!
Correction
ShareThis has released a correction. The data as supplied in the chart above are incorrect. The corrected data are shown in the chart below. Significantly the loss in popularity is not as significant as with the original data set:
Feb 23, 2009 @ 10:10:54
I'm not surprised that Digg is so low on the list. Digg is the world's largest collection of immature douchebags on the planet.
Feb 23, 2009 @ 13:21:04
Digg sucks.
Feb 24, 2009 @ 00:25:10
at least digg and its douchebags are better than slashdot. remember them?
Feb 24, 2009 @ 01:31:56
Digg is for lamers.
Feb 24, 2009 @ 05:07:09
Nothing good lasts .. teaches them a good lesson that you can't be a douchebag overlord/tyrant and still expect people to join you.
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In short, Fuck you Digg!
Feb 24, 2009 @ 09:03:41
I got tired of Digg for 5 reasons
1. Their website is slow and a javascript mess. pages render slowly sometimes (try viewing it on a opera mini) and their system for comments… wait, i'll get to that… but, one of the reasons i gave up on digg was that i got sick of their speed issues and reddit was much much faster.
2. i don't feel like i can relate to digg's user base anymore. it used to be geeks like me, but now a lot of them are:
- "social media experts" who use digg to promote some crap site or product or whatnot and are trying to game diggs rank system and spam you with friend requests
- propagandists, who try to game opinion of current events by spamming with propaganda comments or mass burying of articles
not only that, but you don't even get the impression that you stand a chance at a url getting to front page anymore, because you don't. their system is broken. and, to make matters worse, digg isn't very good at selecting which ads compliment their site, considering their (traditional) userbase.
3. their comment system is, as i mentioned before, deeply broken. not only is it annoying that you do not have a good system for showing replies to to any of your comments (reddit gives you a message inbox, digg forces you to go through their really slow user history page, where you have to click on links to individual threads to view the comments) or the fact that threads can only be a few levels deep (make it annoying to respond to someone), but now digg doesn't even do that right. you will go to your history page, click through to a thread where you had a comment reply, only to find that it doesn't load any of the replies (they are probably having architectural problems with the design of their systems)
4. the quality of articles are getting poor and things take a long time to hit front page… now it can take something several days before it hits front page and by then its old news already. i'm getting used to seeing something on reddit show up on digg 1-2 days later.
5. kevin rose is too self-aggrandizing and is more interested in trying to be rich and acting like a celebrity, than running a decent website. it gets a bit much after a while. maybe he should spend more time working on how to fix his site.
Feb 24, 2009 @ 09:16:21
Duh uh? factor here. How in the hell can you compare a site that gathers (occasionally)something of interest or (sometimes) something newsworthy and compare it to a means of conveyance, e-mail. If I find something of interest on reddit or doggdot or any of the news sites I e-mail it to who I might consider an interested party. On Facebook its; Uh waderyadoin, idunnowaderyudoin type stuff. Pure apples and oranges comparisons here. Time for a red-do ShareThis.
Feb 24, 2009 @ 09:26:31
People really love Dig I see
Feb 24, 2009 @ 09:37:39
Digg users should be strapped to a bacon slicer and have a wafer thin slice cut off them each day. Starting at their feet.
Feb 24, 2009 @ 09:58:17
Yes, Digg has really gone down the tubes, no doubt. Here at Fark we still welcome all douchebags that the other crappy sites lose. We haven't quite reached douchebag saturation, try as we might.
Feb 24, 2009 @ 10:33:25
To frank mir:
Anyone using the term douchebag is already one themselves.
Digg is going down hill, but trying to compare digg to slashdot? that's completely different. Slashdot is still going strong, not every site wants users like you on it.
Feb 24, 2009 @ 11:40:08
Sad I really liked Digg early on now it is mainly run by 4chan tards and cry babies.The commentators don't even read the submitted articles before posting a ignorant comment thats what pisses me off.
Feb 24, 2009 @ 12:11:31
where is reddit ?
Feb 24, 2009 @ 12:24:13
Digg's popularity, and the constant re-engineering, has been part of its pending demise. Third party sites that allow the boost of vote weight, the admitted internal shifting of voting priorities, the entire "power user" concept, etc. At one time, it was possible for an average user to have an occasional story get some front page love. Now, if your name doesn't rhyme with MrBabyMan, good luck.
Sites like Reddit are on the upswing, because their formula is much simpler, and their use of multiple views (Top Hot, Top All, Top per Channel, etc.), mean that you have multiple chances of getting a "Front Page" view of sorts. The intense focus on community participation over straight link dumping, and the fairly aggressive internal spam policing that comes with that, has also added much to increase the value of the site to the user.
I noticed Reddit isn't on this list, but I assure you, it will be soon…
Feb 24, 2009 @ 12:44:52
the actual people who submit sites to digg are the heavy users, the majority of digg users i imagine are unregistered, and just there to read the "top stories" instead of actually sharing
Feb 24, 2009 @ 12:51:22
I used to comment on Digg until I realized that it was teeming with teenage socialists brainwashed by our liberal public school system.
Feb 24, 2009 @ 12:53:17
Fuck Digg. Reddit FTW.
Feb 24, 2009 @ 13:59:27
Share this is a widget that can captures data on how people are willing to share web links with their widget. This data is a reflection of what services widget users use, not a reflection of the total marketplace for link sharing.
-People who use digg/reddit/stumble upon regularly rarely use share widgets. They have their own browser based bookmarks, toolbars and extentions to facilitate this. Share this is missing the vast majority of heavy users of social networking sites.
-Digg, Deli.icio.us, Reddit, are all sites whose most active users are heavily technology oriented. These active users will certainly not be using sharethis.
-These data don't account for reach at all. Sending an email that will be read by one person, two at most, is very different from submitting a link submitted to digg. A submission popular user on Digg, will be seen by several thousand individuals. A submission from any Joe Shmoe will likely be seen by 20-50 people in the upcoming section, I'd guess a similar number for reddit.
No matter how popular ShareThis is, these results are HIGHLY likely an accurate reflection of the various sharing services.
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Feb 24, 2009 @ 14:02:13
Oops!
Edit: I mean to say highly UNlikely to be a accurate reflection of the marketplace.
Feb 24, 2009 @ 16:54:42
I wouldn't doubt this for a second.
Digg still has a strong core of a community, but it was overrun with spammers a very long time ago.
Feb 26, 2009 @ 17:42:16
It's no surprise that Digg is so low. They've become an entirely worthless site after they stopped caring about their community and cared only about making more money.
Digg is losing value quickly. You may remember that Google was considering buying Digg, but that quickly fell through the cracks. And deciding NOT to buy Digg was an excellent move on Google's part. Digg produces ZERO content, and relies entirely on their users in order to drive traffic. However, Digg decided to start banning the users that were doing THE MOST WORK and earning Digg THE MOST MONEY, so Google dropped Digg like a bad habit.
Digg single-handedly destroyed themselves. They are completely useless now.
Anybody still interested in being part of a social media should consider abandoning ship and move to another site. Personally, I've moved mostly to Mixx, but I've been poking around at Reddit and StumbleUpon, too. They're much kinder to their money-makers (read: users) and have better ways of customizing the news that YOU want to see.
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