Digg dumps Shouts for Facebook, Twitter and email (venturebeat.com)

good, this feature seemed to only be used for <del>spam</del> relentless self-promotion.

I have memories of annoying developer no. 2 endlessly quoting Dave Winer's platitude about "sending away users to make them return." SBW (http://sbw.org) was right again.

Listen to your most annoying developers.

I have never heard of "Shout" before reading this article.

The author is comparing apples to elephants here. Facebook's growth is completely different and unrelated to Digg. As is twitter to digg. That's like saying hacker news isn't growing as well as google.

I'm confused. How can Twitter be "invading" Digg? Didn't Kevin Rose invest in Twitter? If my memory serves me correctly, he mentions his investment in this video. http://www.vimeo.com/3934635

He also started WeFollow, the Twitter directory. http://wefollow.com/