Digg Hacked or Clever Advertisement?
02.03.2010
I stole that headline from brentcsutoras, in a post which begins: “It appeared today as if Digg had been hacked. If you visit Digg.com and view the page source, you will see the following in the code….. Which makes you wonder if this might not be a hack after all, but rather a pretty clever marketing campaign made to look like a hack.”
It is, in fact, just some fun with advertising — a nod by Electronic Arts to the ASCII art geeks at Digg. Thanks for the kind words, Brent!
UPDATE 8:36pm: The brentcsutoras post was submitted to Digg (here) and was promoted to Digg’s homepage — based on Diggs added by other readers — 7 hours ago. With nearly 1000 Diggs, it’s one of today’s 10 most popular stories on Digg. Well done, EA.
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This post was mentioned on Twitter by chasnote: EA’s ASCII art campaign on Digg to promote Dante’s Inferno is Top 10 most popular story on Digg today, http://bit.ly/byxmBX…
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