Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links was the headline of Pete Cashmore’s post on Mashables tonight and the subject of his post.
Digg did just that which is the unthinkable. Digg hijacked your Twitter links and it is for real.
For Mashables and all of us who aggregate content it was a handy place to mark and move to the next. Digg decided to do this without anyone knowing and it’s very underhanded. Even if they claim on Monday that it wasn’t intended that way, well, that’s the effect it’s having on their subscribers and users.
I’m trusting that Monday Digg will re-evaluate their decision and by then it’ll be cresting the top of Twitter trends and hopefully the other sites which measure what’s hot.
It is a loss to the social media community comprised of millions of users that Digg felt they were above anyone’s level to the point of being underhanded and not exercising some corporate ethics. There was no regard for their customer base and it shows a lack of integrity that it wasn’t disclosed ahead of time.
Personally if they don’t change because of people protesting it, there will be no choice but to leave in 1 week unless they are working on an equitable solution!
News Update!
The Founder of Digg Kevin Rose had been away on vacation for the last two weeks and let people on Twitter know that he didn’t know about the changes.
just now reading the digg short url discussion, I was not aware this changed and will check in on it tomorrow (was on vacation for 2 weeks)about 3 hours ago from Tweetie
So let’s see what happens and hopefully he’ll help turn this thing around. It looks like someone might have implemented what seemed like a great idea without getting it cleared up. Time will tell !
Read the story first hand if you haven’t.
Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links
