We've seen some epic battles in our weekly Web Faceoff series, where we put opposing social media and tech tools into the Colosseum and have them go to war for your vote. Our very first faceoff, Firefox vs. Chrome, had over 8,000 votes, while only 31 votes separated Last.fm vs. Pandora.
None of those battles compared to the clash that occurred this week, though. We asked you, the readers, to choose between Digg, Stumbleupon or Reddit for social media supremacy. But while we thought there would be a lot of passionate people for this faceoff, we didn't expect nearly 30,000 votes, shattering all of our previous records.
So who won this battle for the ages? It was close, and the lead changed several times, but in the end...
...Digg was able to secure the victory. After Reddit took the lead in the beginning, Digg fought back with its massive community and gained 14,762 votes, or 50 percent. In second place was Reddit, which garnered 11,466 ballots (39 percent). StumbleUpon was left in the dust with only 2,507 votes (8 percetn).
This was, by far, our most popular and heated Web Faceoff yet. We're going to do it again next week though, so watch out for the next edition. Until then, let us know what you think of this week's result in the comments.
Who would win in a fight: Digg, StumbleUpon, or Reddit?(survey software)
Web Faceoff: Overall Results
Week 1:
- Mozilla Firefox vs. Google Chrome
- WINNER: Firefox, 4600 votes (Chrome: 3310 votes, Tie: 911 votes)
Week 2:
- WINNER: Tumblr, 1809 votes (Posterous: 1496 votes, Tie: 256 votes)
Week 3:
- WINNER: Last.fm, 1187 votes (Pandora: 1156 votes, Tie: 122 votes)
Week 4:
- WINNER: Facebook, 2484 votes (Twitter: 2061 votes, Tie: 588 votes)
Week 5:
- WINNER: WordPress, 2714 votes (Typepad: 267 votes, Tie: 357 votes)
Week 6:
- WINNER: Windows 7, 3632 votes (Snow Leopard: 3278 votes, Tie: 121 votes)
Week 7:
- TweetDeck vs. Seesmic Desktop
- WINNER: TweetDeck, 3294 votes (Seesmic Desktop: 1055 votes, Tie: 260 votes)
Week 8:
- Microsoft Office vs. Google Docs
- WINNER: Microsoft Office, 1365 votes (Google Docs: 994 votes, Tie: 315 votes)
Week 9:
- Apple iPhone vs. Google Android
- WINNER: Google Android, 3323 votes (Apple iPhone: 1494 votes, Tie: 228 votes)
Week 10:
- WINNER: Verizon, 1161 votes (AT&T: 538 votes, Tie: 118 votes)
Week 11:
- WINNER: Google, 2180 votes (Bing: 519 votes, Tie: 97 votes)
Week 12: