Day after day on tech blogs I see comments like this:
OMG Another Twitter story! Slow news day? Seriously, I’m on Twitter but you guys post so much about this service. Seriously? It’s just text updates!!!!
I’m sure anyone reading any of the popular tech blogs can align with me on this. So I looked a few numbers from TechCrunch. They’re a popular site covering emerging Internet technologies, social media, Web 2.0 and other cool tech news. Here are the amount of posts dedicated to Twitter compared to other companies.
It’s not that Twitter is written about more but it looks like Twitter will soon surpass Myspace which has been around since 2003. Of course Myspace just isn’t as hot anymore in the eyes of TechCrunch whereas Facebook has a 230 post gain on Twitter and no one has complained about too many posts about Facebook. Oh and look at Google! Sure they’ve been around longer but TechCrunch hasn’t been around since 1997 so I assumed Google would be around the 500 posts range as well. The iPhone has only been out for 20+ months (a year less than Twitter) and it is only 100 posts short of what Twitter has.
What I’m trying to say is that it might seem that Twitter is getting tons of press by TechCrunch and other blogs but in actuality, it just seems that way and Twitter creates news for blogs like TechCrunch. Here’s an example.
Ashton Kutcher posts that he’s starting a new venture and he tweets it on Twitter. TechCrunch is a friend of Kutcher and they post a copy of that tweet on TechCrunch and talk about how Ashton used Twitter to break the news as a side note. Well that’s another post “about Twitter” despite not actually being a Twitter focused entry. Twitter is a medium for news, current events, social media and it is the darling of silicon valley just like Google was in 2001 after the first dot com bubble burst.
Just chill out guys. It’s inevitable that you’ll eventually join Twitter and when you do, it’ll be clear what you’ve been missing all of this time. I still think TechCrunch and other blogs should make RSS feeds that don’t include Twitter but until then I’ll just have to deal with comments full of complaints that they’re talking about Twitter way too much.
There is far to much chat about Twitter. I for one am sick of the constant barrage of pants stories about how great Twitter is when clearly its a bit rubbish.
Ive been so enraged infact that I have killed the annoying little mascot on my site.