Simple - it creates controversy on slow tech news days. What better way to ensure decent traffic numbers than to loudly proclaim that the "sky is falling" to r

Simple - it creates controversy on slow tech news days. What better way to ensure decent traffic numbers than to loudly proclaim that the "sky is falling" to readers who are more than likely your most avid readers (being a weekend). It makes people argue over what is essentially a non-story - Michael Arrington has managed to grab 10k friendfeed followers in 5 months? And? How is this tech news? Flipside, Lets take Alex Albrecht - he's managed to gain about 30k twitter followers in 3 months. 3 times the followers in nearly half the time. That would suggest that Twitter has still a lot more life in it than people are giving it credit, even if a lot of the tech crowd is loudly proclaiming that "Twitter is dead", realistically we, the tech crowd, make up the minority of its total users. I think in general, tech people forget that we only represent a small portion of the total Internet. BTW, I respect Michael, so hopefully nobody takes this as an attack on him (because its not meant to be), I'm just trying to illustrate a point.