Digg's new experiment with Digg Trends

From digg's official blog ~ by Kurt Wilms

Digg has been working on new ways to expose the most interesting stories to more people. Today Digg launched a new homepage voting experiment called Digg Trends which will surface certain highly active stories as they’re trending to Digg’s homepage so people can vote on whether or not they feel the story actually belongs there.

How does it work? Digg Trends identifies and highlights upcoming stories that have a high volume of activity (think Diggs, comments, favorites, shares, etc.). Once Digg detects a new trending story, it will appear on the homepage for ten minutes. Based on the Digg and bury activity in those ten minutes the story will either become popular or not. To make it easy to follow the action, Digg has also setup a Twitter account to tweet out when a new Digg Trend is up for voting on the homepage. Here’s an example of what a Digg Trend might look like:

The goal of Digg Trends is to put high activity stories in front of the community quickly and to present a fun new way for people to express whether they like the story or not. Digg only show the most basic information for each story so as to ensure that voting is as unbiased as possible.



Comments

Rishi said…
twitting about the popular stories would certainly help the digg users this is an added advantage.
April 28, 2010 at 11:53 AM
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