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I recently wrote about the Digg Elite and the 80-19-1 rule. In that post I mentioned that I had made it into Digg’s top 1 percent but didn’t mention specifics about where the 1 percent cutoff is. So out of curiosity I have calculated what it takes to barely move into the top 1 percent of Digg users based on Popularity (rank of amount of stories submitted that made it to the homepage) Since there are currently 361,584 registered users on Digg one would need to be one of the top 3,615 users for a given metric to be in the top 1 percent. Looking at the top Digg users section we can see the the current user that is ranked 3615 has had two stories make it to the homepage. Digg apparently uses profile views as the secondary measure when there is a tie and since there are hundreds of users with a popularity score of 2 we would have to have at least 2524 profile views to guarantee our spot in the top 1 percent if we only have a popularity score of 2. However, we could also just pass up all those users with a popularity score of 2 and get oursoulves a score of 3 to get in the top 1 percent. So in order to become a top 1 percent user one must obtain a popularity score of 2 and receive at least 2524 profile views or just obtain a popularity score of 3.

It has been said that on social media sites such as Digg the rule of 80-19-1 describes what percentage of users consume, participate, and contribute actively to the community. Eighty percent of the users are just passive consumers, they just visit the site to get the latest news or links. Nineteen percent of users actually participate in the community. However, it is just one percent of users that do most of the contribution of the content that gets consumed.

Rand at SEOmoz wrote a little while back about the phenomena of top users having a disproportionate amount of influence. I believe the influence and power that these top users have is merited. It takes a lot of work to become one of these top users and they deserve to have the power they have. I speak from experience. Although I am not a top 20 or even top 100 user on Digg (at least not yet) I have recently made into the elite group of the top 1,000 users (number 711 as of this writing to be exact), and with a few stories near the homepage right now I should be in the 300 to 400 range by weeks end. So if we assume that there are at least 71,100 users at Digg, which I think is very likely, I am one of the top 1 percent.