Digg

Every week, thousands of headlines land on Digg’s homepage based on popular opinion. 17 million monthly users like you submit, Digg and bury the stories that make you smile, think and argue at the dinner table. And now in celebration of the holidays, that table is getting a little bigger.

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Starting today and over the next few weeks, users will now be able to share the stories they read on Digg with their friends on Facebook and add them to their Timeline as they go.When logged into Facebook and Digg, users who choose to turn social sharing on via the Digg Newsbar can share the headlines they are reading back to their Timeline and their friends’ News Ticker.

Digg users have long known the value of sharing news. Since the launch of Newswire and Newsrooms earlier this year, readers have been able to see the reading activity for people they follow on Digg and today’s integration takes that one step further.

Sharing to Facebook now makes it easier to:

• Discover and Digg what your friends are reading
• Record history of your news reads in Timeline
• Encourage friends to Digg the articles most important to you to impact Top News of the Day

If you’re a Facebook user new to Digg you will now be able to:

• Discover new content from hundreds of publications
• Get recommendations on popular news similar to what you are reading
• Record history of your news reads in Timeline

You will have control over what you share on Facebook by choosing whether to turn social sharing on or off, selecting what audience you share to and the ability to always edit your activity.You can also control your settings from your Activity Log on Facebook, where you can remove specific stories from your Timeline or hide them.

A Great Social Reading Experience

Here’s what the experience will look like when you click on a Digg story in your friends’ News Feed:

The link will send you to the new Digg Newsbar to read the story directly from your browser.
The Newsbar will suggest another similar story on Digg if you want to keep reading.

Here’s what it looks like on the Digg Newsbar:

The stories that you read are sent to an activity feed where you'll see a reminder of whether social sharing is ON or OFF. You can also directly change your sharing settings from here as well.

Good Things Come to Those Who Share

Over the last six months, we have been promoting news on Digg to fans of our Facebook Page and the response has been amazing. More than 81 percent of our fans are visiting content regularly and for our most popular stories, we are seeing more unique visitors than the number of fans, demonstrating how viral headlines can be. We also know that users connected to Digg from Facebook spend an average of 15 minutes as opposed to an average of 10 for other users.

So, we can only expect good things will come to those who share.

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Happy Holidays and Happy Reading.