Episode 12: Dead Diggers Tweeting

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This week we covered a number of topics, mostly related to Digg & Twitter then we brought in two noteable banned diggers. Karim Yergaliyev better known as supernova17 formally the 4th most successful digger of all time (now 6th, but banned) and Mich De Lorme aka MichDe both spoke about their digg banning stories; why they were banned, what their thoughts were on banning in general, and then about the digg bury brigade.

Topics Covered:

The NHL’s Latest Social Media Push: A Twitter Contest
The NHL seems to be the only Sports League embracing Twitter. As a new hockey season begins, the NHL are continuing with what they have done in the past, which is to utilize Twitter for NHL Tweet-up’s and contests. This one being a chance to win free tickets with their #NHLPick15 contest.
The contest: Pick the winners of the 15 games that will be played on October 3rd (Saturday), tweet them to @NHL, and include the hashtag.The tie breaker is to guess all penalty minutes for all 30 teams that will acquire on Sat. One person who gets all 15 teams right gets free tickets to any regular season game of their choice (minus the NHL Winter Classic). Ten others get NHL GameCenter Live for a season. Expect to see more of this since Gary Vaynerchuck’s from VaynerMedia is involved.
[via mashable & twitter]

NBA Social Media Policy: No In-Game Tweeting
Unlike the NHL, the NBA is following in the NFL policies towards Social Media, “minimally” restricting any NBA officials from tweeting or using Facebook 90 minutes prior to game or until after meeting with the media. The primary restriction of the policy is expected to prevent various team representatives from tweeting during games, after the stir caused late last season when Detroit Pistons forward Charlie Villanueva, then with Milwaukee, tweeted from the Bucks’ locker room during halftime.
[via mashable & espn & espn & twitter]

Texas Tech football coach bans players from using Twitter
Texas Tech players have been banned from having Twitter pages. Coach Mike Leach announced the move Monday after one of his linebackers noted the coach’s tardiness to a Sunday meeting. “Wondering why I’m still in this meeting room when the head coach can’t even be on time to his meeting,” linebacker Marlon Williams tweeted.
[via sportingnews]

80% Of Twitter Users Are All About Me
After dissecting over 3,000 tweets from more than 350 Twitter users’ status updates the professors concluded that 80% of users are “meformers,” or “Me Now” status updaters.
[via mashable and scribd]

Twitter Continues Talent Scoop, Takes Digg’s UX Guy JD/Victor
Trammell is the latest in a series of long-time employees to leave Digg in recent months. In May, former lead architect Joe Stump announced he was leaving to do a new mobile location startup (now called SimpleGeo) with former SocialThing founder Matt Galligan. A couple of weeks ago, Digg’s design lead Daniel Burka, announced he would be joined Tiny Speck, the new social gaming startup led by former Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield.
[via TechCrunch]

Digg Front Page Activity Sees Drastic Drop
For an entire year now, digging activity statistics from the social news site digg.com seem to have been dropping. If you look at the total # of diggs on all stories hitting the front page, the average number of diggs per story, the total number of comments, and average number of comments per story, all have been on a steady downward trend.
[via SocialBlade]

Guests (Topic: Banned Diggers and the Bury Brigade)
MichDe & Supernova17

New Media Concepts the Digg Bury Brigade & How to Fight it