Archive for December, 2008

Is Digg rigged? The numbers…

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

I retrieved the last 1100 (Minus one by kevinrose, which skewed all the numbers) stories that hit the front page and found out some info about the users who submitted the stories.
Here’s what I’ve found:

Users
Stories
Fans
Friends

Total
251
1099.0
449035.0
66976.0

Average
-
4.4
1789.0
266.8

Median
-
2.0
991.0
218.0

Some graphs:
This one shows the number of stories each user had on the front page (horizontal axis) and the number of [...]