Two days back I spent an insane amount of time doing research and calculating statistics for the top digg users, based on how many homepage articles they submitted over a 30 day period of time.

From the results:

I’ve finally finished adding up all the authors who’s submissions made homepage in the past 30 days (same as before, March 15th 2007 to April 15th 2007), and it had a strangely cool outcome. The number of users who had more than one article hit the homepage in the past 30 days works out to be EXACTLY 300. It’s the small things in life….

I submitted the article to Digg (link), and within 3 hours it had almost 100 diggs. It quickly became the most popular upcoming article, but even at 100+ diggs, it did not cross over to homepage. In fact, after sitting there at the top of upcoming for an hour or two, it got buried. Here’s an example of the comments posted on the digg article after it happened, “This should hit the front page, I can’t believe it got buried.”

I’m not saying anything that didn’t deserve it should have been homepaged, I’m just curious with such high support in upcoming, why it didn’t cross over.

Now, I’m not sure what happened with Digg’s system there, but this article has been attracting quite a bit of buzz on it’s own, including a post on seomoz: link. From that, I’ve decided to try again and see if things happen any differently this time. If you know what could have stopped this article from crossing over to the homepage last time, I’d be curious to know (please leave a comment here).

Anyway, now to the results! Here are the top 50 most powerful digg users for the previous 30 days. View the full list of 300 here.

#1  MrBabyMan — one hundred thirty three articles (!!!)
#2  gmark13 — forty eight articles
#3  supernova17 — forty five articles
#4  mklopez — forty four articles
#5  AdmiralAdama — forty articles
#6  1KrazyKorean — thirty five articles
#7  interg12 — thirty articles
#8  skored — twenty six articles
#9  Blakovitch — twenty five articles
#10  IvanB — twenty four articles
#11  noname94 — twenty three articles
#12  populist — nineteen articles
#13  webtickle — nineteen articles
#14  zaibatsu — nineteen articles
#15  ace77 — eighteen articles
#16  webtech — sixteen articles
#17  sepultura — sixteen articles
#18  Andy.D — fifteen articles
#19  tomboy501 — fourteen articles
#20  jstohler — fourteen articles
#21  MercedRocks — fourteen articles
#22  OneManArmy — fourteen articles
#23  kevinrose — fourteen articles
#24  burkinaboy — fourteen articles
#25  djm0ther — thirteen articles
#26  CLIFFosakaJAPAN — thirteen articles
#27  koregaonpark — twelve articles
#28  Mythos — eleven articles
#29  decepticrat — eleven articles
#30  estvir — ten articles
#31  H3LLSL337 — ten articles
#32  littlebylittle — ten articles
#33  bonlebon — ten articles
#34  geekchic — nine articles
#35  drum_bum — nine articles
#36  gokss — eight articles
#37  webtechgeek — eight articles
#38  DiggityMcDigg — eight articles
#39  ojames — eight articles
#40  themaximus — seven articles
#41  Viewel — seven articles
#42  mcflynnthm — seven articles
#43  elsewhen — seven articles
#44  econoar — seven articles
#45  savingadvice — seven articles
#46  Hawker400 — seven articles
#47  xBBx — seven articles
#48  rwert — seven articles
#49  Hilton — six articles
#50  sterntastic223 — six articles

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