Digg Bug Allows Same Story To Hit Frontpage Twice

Last night TechCrunch reported on Google’s new social project called OpenSocial. The story was dugg and subsequently frontpage’d. Here is the initial Digg story submission:

• Digg 1 – submitted 8hr 33min ago

A second submission was made as well:

• Digg 2 – submitted 8hr 32 min ago

The stories were submitted one minute (or less) apart. This is where it gets interesting. Digg 2 hit the frontpage first nearly 5.5 hrs ago and appears to have been buried. Digg 1 just hit the frontpage less than an hour ago. Both Digg submissions point to the same TechCrunch story.

A story can only be submitted to Digg once in its lifetime. There appears to be two bugs: first, stories can be submitted multiple times if the submissions occur within 1 minute and the same story can hit the frontpage multiple times if one of those stories is buried.