Digg's best days may be behind it. Once one of the internet's most influential link-sharing social networks, the site has been overtaken by upstarts like Twitter and Reddit, and — as of this weekend — it has lost its founder, Kevin Rose. After a contentious redesign last year, Digg's traffic plummeted — from 18 million visitors a month to 12 million — and commentators suspect that Rose's departure may be the end. Is it time to bury Digg?
Yes. Twitter has replaced it: Digg got "a lot of things right," says Sarah Lacy at TechCrunch, and helped "transform how we consume media." No longer do we need to rely on "media gatekeepers" to tell us what to read or watch. We rely on our friends instead. Unfortunately, we do that using Twitter and Facebook — not Digg. Rose's departure is the "final nail in the coffin."
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