We often criticize and make little jabs at Techcrunch here at Techgeist. Usually these jabs revolve around there unrelenting, sometimes annoyingly obvious, posts about anything Twitter. Some days, my RSS feed is chock full of Twitter news, solely from Techcrunch. While I sometimes feel bombarded by all the Twitter news, and vent my frustration at times across various posts (if I find the posts I commented on I will link them), but today I finally understood why.
I wrote a post two days ago about the online alternative to the memory-hog Tweetdeck called Tweetvisor, and it has gotten an amazing amount of hits. The post has gotten a numerous amount of retweets on Twitter, and a fairly good amount of upvotes on Reddit. This single post about a Twitter application has singly handily boosted are overall site statistics over the past two days, and has gotten nearly double the hits of the second most popular post. With just our boost, I can only imagine the incredible amount of hits Techcrunch gets on posts about Twitter.
So does this mean Techgeist will write about Twitter all the time? In short, no. Just like Tweetvisor, if we find it intriguing enough we will write about, but we will certainly not get to the extent of reporting every single down time. Twitter is a powerful platform when it works, but there is a lot more Internet out there that needs to be explored and reported on. As for Techcrunch, you will no longer hear me bash you again about Twitter posts. I make one exception to this rule though, reporting on Twitter being down is just downright dumb, we all know Twitter is down… heck it’s becoming one of their main features.
