Hey Twitter I Have A Few Questions Too

#1

Post by nickb » Sat, May 31, 2008, 11:47 PM UTC

Hey Twitter I Have A Few Questions Too
techcrunch.com

Re: Hey Twitter I Have A Few Questions Too

#2

Post by joao » Sun, Jun 01, 2008, 1:17 AM UTC

Ridiculous and very low. Clearly an answer to Blaine's last twits, which Arrington took personally: http://twitter.com/blaine

Arrington tries to disguise such a personal attack on technical terms, while it shows he knows very little about technology and has very low ethical principles. The problem is most people who read TechCrunch will consider the post to be accurate.

Re: Hey Twitter I Have A Few Questions Too

#3

Post by mhartl » Sun, Jun 01, 2008, 1:46 AM UTC

It seems to me that many TechCrunch posts about Twitter have a strong emotional component absent from most other posts. I worry that this undermines its objectivity on the subject.

Re: Hey Twitter I Have A Few Questions Too

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Post by socksandsandals » Sun, Jun 01, 2008, 2:28 AM UTC

He's clearly too over-reliant on Twitter and feels emotional about its outages. Now that he's created a personal war between himself and Blaine Cook, don't expect anything from him or the rest of the Gillmor cronies to be anywhere near objective regarding Twitter.

I move to petition pg to institute a Hacker News-wide delete filter be placed on TechCrunch posts for a period of one year. Who's with me?

(I know I can filter them with Greasemonkey but my point is that they are almost always just linkbait and the rest of the HN community could easily skip them with no adverse effects)

Re: Hey Twitter I Have A Few Questions Too

#5

Post by jrockway » Sun, Jun 01, 2008, 2:29 AM UTC

Wow. Wow.

The article is depressingly ignorant, but the comments... the English language does not have a word that describes them. I love how the commenters all drop buzzwords about databases as though they have even the slightest clue about databases, computers, programming, or algorithms. Apparently being able to click "Post" makes you an expert on everything.

sigh. The world depresses me.

Re: Hey Twitter I Have A Few Questions Too

#6

Post by lyime » Sun, Jun 01, 2008, 4:46 AM UTC

Even if techcrunch is wrong, What do you guys think could be the reason for their outages? I am really intrigued by their scaling problem. What do you guys think?

Re: Hey Twitter I Have A Few Questions Too

#7

Post by YuriNiyazov » Sun, Jun 01, 2008, 4:51 AM UTC

The update states that the twitter team continues to be "constructively responsive to criticism" and doesn't get riled up. That just brings more support to the accusation that TechCrunch "is just doing this for attention." I fully support the News.YC TechCrunch ban.