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The Decline and Fall of Tech on Digg

Richard MacManus

If you’re a fan of Digg, you’ve probably been noticing that tech stories are becoming less and less a feature of the social news site. The reason? Digg is attempting to attract a large mainstream-user base. Just how low has tech sunk in Digg? We have new data that show that the number of front-page tech stories is halving every year on Digg.

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