Plane Crash Tweets Help Twitter Overtake Digg

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. (More Digg stories.)