{"id":110459,"date":"2009-12-29T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Digg-Reveals-Top-Stories-of-2009-130760.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-29T04:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T09:55:00","slug":"digg-reveals-top-stories-of-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/110459","title":{"rendered":"Digg Reveals Top Stories of 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Digg has had one busy year and, while things are looking up, it still has a lot of work cut out ahead of it. Twitter was a major disruptor and replaced the social news aggregator as a source for many users who found Twitter’s immediacy a much better alternative to Digg. At the same time, Digg introduced quite a few products, mostly aimed at generating revenue, but also at improving the experience for the users. But as 2009 draws to a close, Digg is focusing its attention on the things that make the service what it is, its users and the stories.<\/p>\n

From this perspective, it wasn’t a great year for Digg either, at least from the raw numbers, as the top stories of the year got half the diggs popular stories in previous years got. The biggest story of the year was US president Barack Obama’s inauguration getting almost 25,400 diggs.<\/p>\n

This was followed by Michael Jackson’s death which captured the attention of the world and got 24,800 diggs, just shy of taking the first spot. At number three is “The Story of Prisoner F95488,” an US student and talented soccer player, immigrated from Ghana, which may have been wrongfully imprisoned.<\/p>\n

Perhaps worrying, for Digg, is the fact that the numbers don’t stack up to previous years, for example the top story of 2007 and of all time for that matter, the whole AACS encr… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Digg has had one busy year and, while things are looking up, it still has a lot of work cut out ahead of it. Twitter was a major disruptor and replaced the social news aggregator as a source for many users who found Twitter’s immediacy a much better alternative to Digg. At the same time, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}