I read this story yesterday and really enjoyed it, so I wanted do share it with you today. Here’s yet another example of the power of social media.

Yesterday (around noon) I posted an article called Don’t Block Firefox! I wrote it after reading about an annoying site called WhyFirefoxIsBlocked.com on Reddit (and later on Digg). I submitted it to StumbleUpon, and posted comments on Digg and Reddit (including a link to my post). Within two hours, it was the most popular post on Webmaster-Source. I looked at the “Popularity: 100%” in disbelief. How did that happen? I immediately opened a couple of tabs and logged into Google Analytics and pMetrics.

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I’ve been using Digg for a long time now. I’ve had plenty of complaints about it, but mostly small annoying things that I would change. Today Digg announced that they have been diverting traffic by using shortened URL’s that in fact are landing pages of Digg.com. As of lately using Digg.com has become more and more annoying and I am considering spending my time somewhere else.

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