Tech | January 21, 2009 | 4 comments

Plane crash tweets help Twitter overtake Digg

source: http://weblogs.hitwise.com/heather-dougherty/2009/01/twitter_catches_up_to_digg.html

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(Newser) – Twitter traffic has overtaken Digg for the first time since the microblogging site's launch, Hitwise reports. The newcomer edged up to #84 last week—one spot above Digg—after the US Airways crash spawned a huge number of updates. A photo of the scene taken by a Twitter user on a ferry was widely viewed and got picked up by many traditional media outlets.
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