> ...news they’d seen on Twitter, rather than news they might have previously seen on Digg.

Reddit, for the most part, does not have this problem - reddit is about the community and the discussion, not about the MLP. Maybe Rose still doesn't understand (or maybe doesn't want to admit) why Digg failed.

> Rose also said that Digg hired individuals with very niche skills, like developers who only knew PHP and were not as useful once PHP went out of use.

If you own a startup, and you're hiring the kind of programmer that only knows one language, you're already making some pretty big mistakes.