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The Toolbar Factor: Engagement’s Role in Social Voting

Jun 30, 2009 at 7:00am ET by Jordan Kasteler

Since their infancy, social news sites have been trying to stay one step ahead of social media users trying to artificially promote content to their front page. Digg.com has been the center focus for spamming and gaming in social media because a front-page promoted story equates to thousands of visitors and hundreds, or even thousands of links. In order to combat the gamers and filter out spam, Digg has created an algorithm that is very complex in nature. Never do they cease to fine tune it, in an effort to try to stay ahead of people trying to artificially promote content to their front page. [...]

Filed in: Let's Get Social, Toolbars & Add-Ons

The 6 Types Of Annoying Social Media Promoters

Jun 23, 2009 at 7:01am ET by Greg Finn

You could be the next "Will It Blend" but if nobody knows about you, then it doesn't matter how creative and awesomely original you are. One of the most important factors in social media is the promotion of your content, and this often leads to annoyance. There are many annoying social media habits, but perhaps the most annoying come from the promotion of social media. Avoid the following social promotion pitfalls to become a less annoying (and more effective) user: The Impersonal Users. If asking for a favor, make it personal. Social media is supposed to be all about relationships, yet so [...]

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Will Digg’s New Share Feature Pollute Twitter?

Jun 2, 2009 at 7:00am ET by Jordan Kasteler

Recently, Greg Finn at 10e20.com covered Will Digg Be a Better Place Without Shouts? In the post, Greg announces the news of Digg dropping their shout system, which allowed Digg users to share content with each other, in lieu of a feature that allows users to share content via email, Facebook, and Twitter. So, the main concern now is how Digg content will infiltrate (and pollute) Twitter from this point forward. Image courtesy of ReadWriteWeb.com There is already so much noise on Twitter that it becomes difficult to monitor the majority of the conversation without integrated segmenta [...]

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