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Twitter Tempts Fate
- reitzensteinm 18y ago"The smartest thing Twitter could have done would be to hire former Chief Architect Blaine Cook back as a consultant to keep an eye on things for the day (he seems to be the only person that can keep his crazy architecture actually live)." I'm lost for words.
- sant0sk1 18y agoThat sentence was utterly confounding to me as well. The best thing Twitter could have done would be to keep their mouth shut to avoid cramming their foot in it tomorrow. Having said that, I'm still rooting for them! EDIT: I read my comment and realized it was more derogatory than intended, so I cheered it up a bit :P
- thwarted 18y agoAgreed, this makes little sense. As time goes on, someone's ability to maintain a system (assuming it is something that only he could do well when he was there) quickly approaches zero the longer that person is not involved with it. What's the realistic limit on this anyway, or when will Blaine no longer be mentioned in relation to twitter? At some point, it's all the current employees' burden to bare.
- redorb 18y agoperhaps they see this as a day to shine and really believe they can, thus its a calculated risk.
- walterk 18y agoMeet Michael Arrington, armchair CEO/CTO of Twitter. These are such ridiculous non-stories. I'm almost tempted to start a blog about startup blogs and play armchair editor-in-chief of TechCrunch.
- olefoo 18y agoYou could do it as a series of tweets @fakearrington is still available.
- cstejerean 18y agoinstead of completely banning TC, what if we ban all TC articles that mention Twitter?
- abstractwater 18y agoEnough with these 0 content posts already!! They are ok on TC not here!
- rw 18y ago"Expect silence on our end if they do [succeed], and a merciless blog post if they fail." PG: How about this: all stories from Techcrunch should be allowed to be downmodded.