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Good article. But Scoble is a hypocrite. I haven't seen any company obsessed about their number of followers or cribbing about not being in Twitter's suggested

Good article. But Scoble is a hypocrite. I haven't seen any company obsessed about their number of followers or cribbing about not being in Twitter's suggested friend list. But scoble does both. The benefit of being on the list is that you get more followers. Since techcrunch was on the list and scoble was not, he was mighty pissed and started throwing around accusations that techcrunch had paid twitter for the position on suggested friend list. If as he says, no of followers doesn't matter, then why would not being on the list matter so much to him. Here is the thread on friendfeed where he accuses TechCrunch of paying twitter and makes a huge deal about number of followers http://friendfeed.com/e/c487ea34-ee9c-4794-9bc6-29d2cc1ceda1/Prove-that-Techcrunch-did-not-pay-biz-10-000-to/ http://friendfeed.com/e/c487ea34-ee9c-4794-9bc6-29d2cc1ceda1...

jonknee 18y ago
Man that was painful. Never in my life have a seen an adult act like such a cry baby. He can't face that other people may actually be more interesting to a wide cross section of people. No, it has to be a pay off.
physcab 18y ago
I'm not sure what's worse: the guy complaining, or the guy complaining about the guy complaining. Shouldn't this thread be about good corporate policy? I remember working for a government contractor and everyone seemed like a bunch of drones. I'm happy to hear one success story. It gives me ideas about how I want my own business to be someday :)
- boundlessdreamz 18y ago
  I had said in the beginning of my comment that it was a good article. Everything that zappos is doing is nice and it is evidently working for them. If the article was about strictly zappos I would have had no objections. I'm happy to hear success stories too. What I'm not happy to hear is scoble's agenda. What I objected to was the mudslinging on O'Reilly, for promoting an event which focuses on number of followers and promoting 140 conference where he is a speaker. When scoble itself focuses more on number of followers than community and engage in trash talking O'Reilly (and TechCrunch) for the same, I see lack of credibility. What scoble cleverly tried to say is "See, Zappos is doing great with twitter without focusing on followers. So come to 140 conference where we can teach you how". Riding on Zappos's success to promote his conference was distasteful IMHO.

jonknee 18y ago

Man that was painful. Never in my life have a seen an adult act like such a cry baby. He can't face that other people may actually be more interesting to a wide cross section of people. No, it has to be a pay off.

physcab 18y ago

I'm not sure what's worse: the guy complaining, or the guy complaining about the guy complaining. Shouldn't this thread be about good corporate policy? I remember working for a government contractor and everyone seemed like a bunch of drones. I'm happy to hear one success story. It gives me ideas about how I want my own business to be someday :)

boundlessdreamz 18y ago
I had said in the beginning of my comment that it was a good article. Everything that zappos is doing is nice and it is evidently working for them. If the article was about strictly zappos I would have had no objections. I'm happy to hear success stories too. What I'm not happy to hear is scoble's agenda. What I objected to was the mudslinging on O'Reilly, for promoting an event which focuses on number of followers and promoting 140 conference where he is a speaker. When scoble itself focuses more on number of followers than community and engage in trash talking O'Reilly (and TechCrunch) for the same, I see lack of credibility. What scoble cleverly tried to say is "See, Zappos is doing great with twitter without focusing on followers. So come to 140 conference where we can teach you how". Riding on Zappos's success to promote his conference was distasteful IMHO.