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Digg 4 wants to be Twitter for News

The 4th version of Digg has been rolled out with several major changes in the design, front-page algorithm, and social components.

The social news site has somehow transform into some sort of Twitter-like streaming of news and links.

Since 2004, Digg has been a major source of breaking news and stories for me — ranging from the oddest, funniest, and most informative collection of stories. However, thru the years, it has been invaded by power-users and power-groups that dominated majority of what comes out in the front-page.

It somewhat lost it relevance so the 4th version of Digg is trying to fix that. The addition of Publisher Streams and My News (personalized news depending on who you follow) has been inspired by Twitter.

I rarely use it nowadays but the roll out of Digg 4 looks promising I might give it a second try. You can also follow me on Digg here.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

7 Responses

  1. Avatar for china phone reviews china phone reviews says:

    Lenovo Golden Warrior A8 reviews?

  2. Avatar for marvin marvin says:

    Do digg prevented the submission of too many links? I was not able to submit 2 links in a row.

  3. Avatar for lolipown lolipown says:

    I agree with redditor :)
    reddit ftw!

  4. Avatar for blankPixels blankPixels says:

    I love the new Digg, but, there are still a couple of bugs here and there. One of which is I can’t seem to follow you there.

  5. Avatar for redditor redditor says:

    REDDIT FTW!

  6. Avatar for tipler tipler says:

    you must mean ‘most informative’

    also, ‘rarely use it nowadays’

  7. Avatar for Jhay Jhay says:

    It has the looks of Facebook and the layout of Twitter with its “More” button at the bottom of the page.

    I wonder how long the power groups will game this new version of Digg?

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