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Digg removes ’shouts’ and adopts ‘retweets’

By Boris
May 20, 2009
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At a Digg Townhall meeting yesterday Kevin Rose and CEO Jay Adelson announced that they are planning to remove the ‘Shout’ option from Digg and offer a new share option to “streamline your ability to share on Facebook and Twitter.”

Good riddance if you ask me because the only shout’s I ever received were basically spam. Digg has been actively focusing on introducing new features and focusing on innovation which is a good thing. As you can see in the below graph Twitter has passed Digg in visits last months:

Digg removes shouts and adopts retweets

A few days ago I posted about the benefit of getting retweeted versus dugg. It seems Digg came to a similar conclusion long before I did and started working on new features to take better advantage of the microblogging phenomena.

Check out this extensive review and in-depth analysis on RWW about the move from Shouts to Tweets and Facebook status updates.

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  • It's pretty strange digg hasn't incorporated twitter more on the site. It has in the ol' diggbar. I have set up twitterfeed to push my digg favorites (you get to favorite something after you've dugg it) to twitter, but that's just a work around.
  • I do agree that "shouts" do not reach people well like a "retweet" on Twitter does. I also received "shouts" that were mostly spam and not of interest to me. It will be interesting to see if the adoption of this "twitter method" works for Digg. I believe that Twitter is really influencing the way a lot of other microblogging companies do their business. In fact, Twitter is becoming a company recognized world-wide and seems to be the next big thing since Google. I believe it's a smart for Digg to be doing this. All the other similar companies seem to be doing it already.
  • The shouts were useless in my opinion and never used it. This is a great move by Digg.
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