Ha! But your traffic graph is going to be screwed for the next month. Nice problem to have though... Congrats!
Can you share the next day traffic screen shots or may be even the 3rd day screen shots, I really want to see how the graph stabilizes over time.
I did nothing. Some digg user who has lots of friends, probably, submitted it to digg and everything happened itself. Traffic has dropped pretty fast, as always with digg. Today I got 10K visits from Digg.
10k visit is still decent...well you should have found a way to monetise that traffic ure getting to make you lots of more money...
I talked to a friend of alleged friend of Bcuban that there was a time that they were using scripts to actually digg thousands of article without doing something. But now, he is currently sending message to his friends almost 100+ a day that regularly digg his article. He consumes minutes to distribute the digg link but its worth it. He is one of the regulars on digg frontpage. Mine is just linearly going up without downs on traffic each day. I think a sudden peak it somewhat beneficial at some point but in the longer run it would not do anything good.
I don't think it's quite that easy to reach a consensus about how and why. Social sites are, as stated on the first page, unpredictable. From my own experience, the best thing to do is to create unique and interesting content. Usually stuff that has video and pictures. We entering into much less of a reading crowd.
I submitted an image. It made front page, It has 400 Diggs. It didnt really help, since I submitted the link to only the pic with a watermark.