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Re:Digg/Delicious Traffic Down 40%. Social Bookmarking Fragm... by labratmatt on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @11:22PM (#2871209)
I instantly thought "Duh. Digg is tanking, but reddit is gaining." I was surprised to see that my inital thought appears to not be true: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com+digg.com/
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Re:Digg/Delicious Traffic Down 40%. Social Bookmarking Fragm... by starwed on Thursday August 11, 2011 @12:45AM (#2871435)
A while ago, reddit had a blog post[1] about how such rankings seemed to have no connection to their internal numbers.

[1]http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/experts-misunderestimate-our-...

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Re:Digg/Delicious Traffic Down 40%. Social Bookmarking Fragm... by yuvipanda on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @11:24PM (#2871213)
After the initial exodus from Digg to Reddit, I suppose there hasn't been much influx that way.

Also, interesting to note that 'top keyword' for reddit is '4chan'.

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Re:Digg/Delicious Traffic Down 40%. Social Bookmarking Fragm... by cfinke on Thursday August 11, 2011 @11:28AM (#2873258)
My numbers appear to agree with your initial assumption:

http://typed.it/reports/traffic/digg.com+reddit.com/day

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