On the weekly Hitwise graph of website traffic among American audiences, Twitter for the first time beat Digg . Now they have the same level of penetration: each controls 0.021% of US traffic (by the number of visits).
A sharp jump in traffic on Twitter occurred last week after the crash, the first information about which appeared on Twitter .
These two sites are not competitors, so their comparison is extremely abstract. Just a few years ago, Digg was a model of explosive growth and symbolized the new generation of web services. Now the new generation of the web has another standard bearer - this is twitter.