Guide Note

The primary purpose of the news and social-networking site, Digg, is to aggregate topics submitted by members. The topics are then voted up or down the list by other members. Consequently, stories will constantly appear and quickly change position in the Digg environment. This page is a collection of useful information that will help you keep track of the vast quantity of information being constantly refreshed on the site.

Fast Facts

1. Site launched: December, 2004
2. Founder: Kevin Rose
3. Site divided into sections for different categories of topics
4. Each section contains its own list of top-ranked topics
5. Homepage reserved for top stories over all the categories
6. A topic on the Digg homepage can receive more than 2.5 million pageviews and over 13,000 unique visitors¹
7. Most Digg users browse with Mozilla Firefox under Microsoft Windows ¹