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Plane Crash Tweets Help Twitter Overtake Digg

Microblogging site gets the edge in market share for first time since launch

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(Newser) – Twitter traffic has overtaken Digg for the first time since the microblogging site's launch, Hitwise reports. The newcomer edged up to #84 last week—one spot above Digg—after the US Airways crash spawned a huge number of updates. A photo of the scene taken by a Twitter user on a ferry was widely viewed and got picked up by many traditional media outlets.

Twitter received a huge boost in traffic from the US Airways crash and visits soared even higher during yesterday's inauguration.
Twitter received a huge boost in traffic from the US Airways crash and visits soared even higher during yesterday's inauguration.   (©microcosmic art)
This photo taken by a passenger on a ferry and uploaded to Twitter shows airline passengers leaving a US Airways jetliner that safely ditched in the Hudson River in New York, Thursday Jan. 15, 2009
This photo taken by a passenger on a ferry and uploaded to Twitter shows airline passengers leaving a US Airways jetliner that safely ditched in the Hudson River in New York, Thursday Jan. 15, 2009   (AP Photo/Janis Krums)
Figures from Internet monitor Hitwise show that Twitter has surpassed Digg for the first time since the microblogging site's launch.
Figures from Internet monitor Hitwise show that Twitter has surpassed Digg for the first time since the microblogging site's launch.   (©NightRPStar)
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