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For TechCrunch, Twitter = Traffic
- vaksel 17y agoDoes the fact @TechCrunch is a suggested account mean you are more likely to report favourably about twitter? Isn’t it a bit like accepting a free gift as a journalist? They send you lots of lovely free traffic for example. this guy is onto something
- sounddust 17y agoI don't think it has anything to do with suggested accounts. TechCrunch figured out that when you write about Twitter, then Twitter users love it and talk about it. I think that's normal behavior (any story written by a major blog about HN would immediately get promoted and viewed here, for example). The reason this doesn't work so much for other sites (writing articles about Facebook, for example) is because Facebook doesn't have the same meta-culture; Facebook users generally don't feel like there is anything special about their membership on the site. Also, sharing outside content/retweeting has not taken off on FB like it has on Twitter.
- robryan 17y agoI wonder how that traffic breakdown would look if they only ever did pieces on actual news relating to twitter instead of pretty much daily news.
- TweedHeads 17y agoFor TC gossip, mudslinging, equals traffic, they don't care about startups or technology anymore. I hope they die a slow and painful death. OTOH, Venturebeat looks promising...