Social Blade: A Tool That Disects the Front Page of Digg
Posted on February 22, 2008
Filed Under Digg, Featured
Have you ever wondered how many diggs it took to get a particular story to the front page of Digg? Are you the type who refreshes often, checks buries, looks at users, monitors the time it takes to get there, checks… everything? If you are a “diggologist,” here’s the perfect tool for you:
Raw Digg data. Just the facts. It keeps track of just about every aspect of all the stories that hit the digg front page. Some of the most important and interesting pieces of data are: number of diggs when it hit, number of recorded buries when it hit, comments when it hit, Diggs per hour, and information about the submitter. All of this data, consolidated on a sortable database-style interface, allows you to filter by users or time period.
Creator FirstDigg has been following Digg for a while but is relatively new to being actively submitting.
“I’ve been a Digger for almost three years now, but over the past few months that I’ve really gotten in to Digg as a submitter,” he said. “During that time I’ve been wondering, what exactly does it take for a story to hit the front page? The question has been burning even more since I started using Twitter and saw msaleem post “Digg Threshold” updates on there about the stats of each of his stories as they hit.”
“It then occurred to me, why don’t I build a system to record all of the statistics of every story as they hit the front page and try to analyze trends, and that’s why I created the site. I don’t really have any conclusions yet, but the data is all there for any statisticians to figure it out.” - FirstDigg
We played with the tool through much of beta. Here are some interesting facts that we have drawn from its use of the last 1192 Front Pages:
- 24 Hour Rule — So you didn’t make it in 24 hours and your story fell off upcoming? No problem. 114, or 9.5% of the front page stories hit after 24 hours but before 48 hours. A few hit with less than 40 diggs.
- Buries Don’t Necessarily Kill — The tool checks the ajaxonomy recorded buries, which accounts for about 10%. 11 stories hit with 20+ recorded Diggs.
- Fewest Required Diggs by Category — The Sports and Sciences sections are BY FAR the easiest categories through which to hit the front page as far as the fewest number of diggs.
The raw data on this tool is phenomenal. Diggers, check it out and see what you can figure out about going popular.
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Lol, this post has more diggs than Social Blade itself
Although it looks like a nice tool, I find it quit irritating that I can’t sort the data from high to low.
So, did this article work out for you? Did you make it to the homepage of Digg?
It takes about 500 votes or so to get on the frontpage of a subcategory of Digg right?