Few minutes back i was logged in into my Digg account just to digg an article that i had one of the writers write for my other blogs, when i was done and landed on the main page a story caught my attention saying “Drunk guy kills Internet” at that time it was only dugged 69 times, so i went to the URL of the story and before i could even read it saw the digg button there showing 94 diggs, thinking it must be a Digg error i went again to the digg homepage and saw it was 102 diggs now, DAMN that was strange as i never saw so quick movement before so i started playing with the page, refreshed it and the digg count showing 124, again refreshed 141, again refreshed 156 and then 172 and 190 and 212 and so on! I stopped. When i saw the time it showed within 12 minutes that story was made popular and had 256 diggs by the time i decided to blog this live action in the digg arena that i experienced. I was wondering how crazy the diggers go when they start digging articles or maybe its just a passion for them.

Now lets come to the Digg effect, its probably said by Shawn Hogan of Digital Point forums that it cost him over $100K for 1 digg that got dugged by over 500 people and his famous Digital Point forums server crashed due to the digg users following the URL, he immediately had to arrange a server donation fund raiser and got the money within a quick span of time and replaced his servers with new blades of servers with RAMs in Gigabytes. That was probably one of the most expensive digg effect i heard of but now lets get back to this gentleman who posted this story on his blog saying a “Drunk guy kills the internet” as to where he will survive this digg effect or not since when i am about to push the Publish button for this post the digg count it shows is 755, best of luck and hope you survive it!