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Really TechCrunch? You are surprised by this?

• arfrank 16y ago
  That was my response too. It's like when Apple revealed their iPhone testing labs. Obviously these companies have internal tools/stats that people have no need to know about, but definitely make their company better able to perform.
  • protomyth 16y ago
    The iPhone testing lab story at least had some cool pictures.
• feral 16y ago
  Completely agree. There's a whole science to the study of networks, looking at things like Centrality, local topological features, and even ranking schemes like PageRank. Of course twitter are going to generate scores for their users as they do recommendation; even if it wasn't explicit, it would have to be implicit in any recommender system. TC would do well to have technical people look over their articles before publication. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network#Social_network_analysis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network#Social_network_a...
  • ojbyrne 16y ago
    That second to last paragraph made me laugh. TC (nor any other large tech blog) can't even get proofreaders to look over their articles before publication.
• wyclif 16y ago
  It was a slow news day at TechCrunch, there were no announcements from Apple today. This was just a fluff piece. Nothing to see here, move along.