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Why We Don’t Write About Twitter Every Day
Every day we receive between 8-10 emails and phone calls about the launch of a new Twitter application. And everyday, I reply to each one with the same thing… we try to stay away from covering Twitter every single day. Last month we banned all Twitter coverage on CN for a week and the feedback I received was very positive.
There are so many other great applications and services that aren’t covered because blogs are focusing on the latest daily release of twirl or a new way to rank how many tweets you made while on the can on sunday morning while drinking an orange juice if wearing a shirt that has a lolcat on it. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with it. With my time so short these days running both CN and CC, I prefer to report on news and apps that provide utility and/or business value.
It doesn’t mean you won’t see any Twitter posts on CN but it does mean that when you see one, you will know we thought long and hard about whether to post the particular piece of content.
My suggestion is if you want coverage for your Twitter apps, you should check out and approach blogs that post many times a day about Twitter. There are plenty of them and top blog Techcrunch comes to mind as a great resource for Twitter apps so if you are a developer you might try going that route.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694
haaaaaa hahahaha hilarious
I agree with the sentiment of this article but that is spot on
Yes really toomuch attention on twitter and its applications coming day by day .Twitter is aspopular as Google now .
hallelujah – sooooo great to see a blog stand up and say enough is enough – next we need to stand up against silly iphone apps
of course tecrunch writes about twitter apps because it’s easy and they dont have to think
That hurt, Anonymous.
I think a lot of people are getting burned out on Twitter coverage because it has gotten so popular but I think like with any topic, blogs need to pick the best apps that provide value to the community and cover them. I don’t think there should be a moratorium on all Twitter coverage but obviously for someone like Allen, if you covered every new Twitter app being developed you’d have to rename this site CenterTwitter.
I also don’t want to see that knee-jerk reaction where people see something getting a lot of press and instantly turn against it because of its popularity. I think readers in the tech community will begin to turn on Twitter and Twitter apps if the coverage continues the way it has and it’s not fair to hate Twitter because there are so many people trying to cash in and get publicity for “The Next Big Thing for Twitter”.
I think part of the issue is that developers reading all the tech blogs see so many twitter apps that they too start to develop twitter apps – interesting point about the negativity – haven’t seen that as of yet
I agree with you Allen, if you look at my RSS Reader there is probably going to be 10 stories covering some type of Twitter App or Twitter it self.
Yet from time to time I do make same mistake as well as my bloggers
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Joe – nothing wrong with writing about twitter or twitter apps – I just think we all need to say "does this really matter" and then if the answer is yes, you post.
so many startups are overlooked for this hour’s latest twitter app
“focusing on the latest daily release of twirl or a new way to rank how many tweets you made while on the can on sunday morning while drinking an orange juice if wearing a shirt that has a lolcat on it.”
“There’s absolutely nothing wrong with it.”
Yes there is. Why do publishers keep publishing junk like this? Infact, why do publishers even write about Twitter? Whoopdeedo we found a new internet fad for the sheep out there, let’s keep producing tonnes of worthless content about it in the hopes that people will care. I’m not a twitter user, I’m not even a casual CN reader but it’s good to see you’re setting yourself apart from the herd.
Nice to see at least one media outlet that has realised its job is to provide objective reporting, not PR puff and endless free product promotion. The rest of the media has completely lost its head and its objectivity over Twitter.
But can you please cover every 20% sneeze from Google Labs instead? (sigh)
Head over to Techmeme and all they can talk about is a location feature appended to your signature file. Really. Close to 30-50 “top” technology blogs all covering a feature in Gmail that lets you change you signature file.
Welcome to Web 3.0
i am going to work on a post about why this behavior exists – i think i have figured it out
I’m glad you’re not adding to the twitter-pated fluff that saturates the echo chamber (e.g., “StockTwits May Change How You Trade”), but I respectfully disagrer with those who dismiss Twitter as not itself being newsworthy–and I commend you for not doing so in your post.
Twitter is a very big deal–it’s certainly one of the most interesting stories in the online tech world whose ending is anyone’s guess. Writing about Twitter apps is like writing about Facebook or iPhone apps–fluff at the periphery of the real story. The big questions (at least for me) are whether microblogging will go mainstream, who will control it, what will be its social norms, and how will anyone make money on it.
And the nice thing about big questions is that they don’t require daily coverage.
You make some really good points Daniel. I had to sit through a demo of stocktwits and left with less iq points than I entered with. I don’t really see any value in a system that lets anyone say what stocks to buy. Hilarious.
I would love to hear more about why you think Twitter is a very big deal.
I’m going to echo what everyone is saying and praise the lack of Twitter coverage.
Relax Robin, many of us still love TechCrunch. Let the haters hate.
Keep writing. I will keep reading.