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Re:Digg Overtakes Facebook with 1400% Growth, 22.6 Million U... by therealarmen on Thursday July 12, 2012 @08:31PM (#4237586)
It's a fun exercise, but we all know how reliable Compete is for quantitative traffic comparisons. For example, Compete currently claims Reddit (http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com/) has less traffic than Digg (http://siteanalytics.compete.com/digg.com/).

I sincerely doubt Digg surpassed Facebook's traffic at any point in the company's lifetime.

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Re:Digg Overtakes Facebook with 1400% Growth, 22.6 Million U... by jedberg on Thursday July 12, 2012 @10:32PM (#4237941)
Compete just makes numbers up. Those uniques are so far off for reddit it isn't even funny.
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Re:Digg Overtakes Facebook with 1400% Growth, 22.6 Million U... by oconnor0 on Thursday July 12, 2012 @11:38PM (#4238119)
That's a very strong claim. What evidence do you have for it?
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Re:Digg Overtakes Facebook with 1400% Growth, 22.6 Million U... by waterside81 on Friday July 13, 2012 @12:03AM (#4238171)
He used to work there. He knew the real traffic numbers.
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Re:Digg Overtakes Facebook with 1400% Growth, 22.6 Million U... by azylman on Friday July 13, 2012 @12:15AM (#4238201)
Probably that whole "being one of the original members of the Reddit team" thing.

But, you know, I could be wrong.

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Re:Digg Overtakes Facebook with 1400% Growth, 22.6 Million U... by oconnor0 on Friday July 13, 2012 @12:59AM (#4238287)
Ah, yes, thanks, that isn't obvious. No need to be snotty about it.
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Re:Digg Overtakes Facebook with 1400% Growth, 22.6 Million U... by Pewpewarrows on Friday July 13, 2012 @10:26AM (#4239927)
His HN profile immediately talks about running Reddit's servers. And he's using the same recognizable username. I don't know how more obvious it could have been.
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Re:Digg Overtakes Facebook with 1400% Growth, 22.6 Million U... by criveros on Friday July 13, 2012 @12:04PM (#4240366)
Why would you check someone's profile?
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Re:Digg Overtakes Facebook with 1400% Growth, 22.6 Million U... by nicholassmith on Friday July 13, 2012 @02:43PM (#4241222)
Because in general when someone says something similar you background check their profile to see if they're for real or a crazy.
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Re:Digg Overtakes Facebook with 1400% Growth, 22.6 Million U... by crash013 on Thursday July 12, 2012 @11:35PM (#4238108)
Why did you let the reddit community turn to shit?
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Re:Digg Overtakes Facebook with 1400% Growth, 22.6 Million U... by raldi on Friday July 13, 2012 @12:39AM (#4238239)
Google "experts misunderestimate"
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