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>> It's forgivable if Alex overlooked that perspective but this is by no means techcrunch's fault. They reported what he tweeted. No, they didn't. They took wh
by larrywright 17y ago
>> It's forgivable if Alex overlooked that perspective but this is by no means techcrunch's fault. They reported what he tweeted.
No, they didn't. They took what he tweeted, gave it a sensationalist headline, and vomited out a few paragraphs of text designed to drive traffic to their site. That is most definitely not reporting.
>> twitter should be very sensitive to how they communicate with developers.
Alex tweeted his opinion about some cool things to come. This is not "communicating with developers", it's making an offhand comment. Twitter communicates through developers through a mailing list, and several official accounts (@twitterapi, for example), not through the personal tweets of its employees.
I don't think it's Alex's responsibility to analyze in advance how every thing he tweets might be interpreted. TechCrunch and Silicon Alley are to blame for the over-sensationalized writing.
- zaidf 17y agoI don't think it's Alex's responsibility to analyze in advance how every thing he tweets might be interpreted. Let's just say we have a serious disagreement there. He essentially tweeted about private future plans of twitter, something I'm pretty sure you cannot do. If you are an employee and you tweet about strategy, you have a responsibility to think from all angles. Otherwise you risk hurting the company you are working for out of negligence--never a good thing in any employee.
- larrywright 17y agoWere he revealing something important, I might agree with you. He tweeted, basically, "there's some cool new stuff coming soon". There's almost no information in that. Additionally, I've seen similar things from other twitter employees. This was nothing until Techcrunch put their spin on it.