Digg's founder, Kevin Rose, and CEO, Jay Adelson, recently announced that Digg's shout feature would be removed sometime this week and replaced with a share feature. Now the changes are live. Users on Digg used to be able to share stories on Digg with other users right on the site, a feature called "Shouts". This thing has been changed from now on. Shouts which was a digg own feature replaced by Facebook and Twitter. Now, Digg's users can only email stories, or share them on Facebook or via Twitter.
According to Digg "We’ve listened to your feedback, crunched some user data, and decided to remove shouts As some of you know, shouts have been a controversial feature since their inception and considering the ever-changing landscape of the social web, we've elected to remove them in favor of more popular options."
To share stories with friends just hover over the 'share' link on the digg homepage and select the service that you want to share the stories. You have three options email, Facebook & Twitter.
If user choose Email then a new mail message will open from your default email client and all you’ll need to do is enter email addresses. If you click on the Twitter icon, It will open Twitter in a browser window and populate the update field with the story title and URL (note that you’ll need to be logged in to Twitter at the time).
Digg also removed the 'Blog This' feature, because of really low usage, According to Digg.
According to Digg "We’ve listened to your feedback, crunched some user data, and decided to remove shouts As some of you know, shouts have been a controversial feature since their inception and considering the ever-changing landscape of the social web, we've elected to remove them in favor of more popular options."
To share stories with friends just hover over the 'share' link on the digg homepage and select the service that you want to share the stories. You have three options email, Facebook & Twitter.
If user choose Email then a new mail message will open from your default email client and all you’ll need to do is enter email addresses. If you click on the Twitter icon, It will open Twitter in a browser window and populate the update field with the story title and URL (note that you’ll need to be logged in to Twitter at the time).
Digg also removed the 'Blog This' feature, because of really low usage, According to Digg.