When does "upcoming" goes to "popular" on Digg ?

Can anybody tell me when does an "upcoming story" on digg.com becomes popular story ?

Also, anybody know how effective is "digg defender" plugin to survive digg traffic ?


Thanks.

 

When the right Digg users digg your story.

 

What do you mean by "right user" ?

Is there any number of diggs required to make it in "popular category" ?

 

Usually around 60 diggs within 24 hours will get you to frontpage. However this fluctuates, even now there are a few stories with 28 diggs in popular category.

 

I depends on which category your story is in. I have heard that in some cases you don't need more than about 30 diggs to make it to the front page.

 

Some Digg users have more Digg power, so when they digg your story you have a better chance at being popular.

No there isn't a required amount of diggs.

 

Oops my site/server goes to "bandwidth exceeded"

Digg is bad if not planned well..

 

Mine will go down too if dugg, being that it is wordpress