Comments on: Why All the Fuss about TechCrunch?

By: Patricia Skinner

Patricia Skinner — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:11:58 +0000

Hi Adam, it does seem that Twitter has been hacked a little too often: it could be that it’s just a fascinating target because of its popularity right now. And it’s obviously something to do with security lapses. But this is not an excuse for TechCrunch publishing stolen data, as I mentioned in my first article over at my own website: Hacking, Cyber Crime, TechCrunch & You.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:22:09 +0000

Is it just me or does twitter get hacked all the time?

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:00:54 +0000

I think it is time for Twitter to step things up a bit and tighten up their security so this does not happen. That revenue plan is gold.

By: Tag44

Tag44 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:20:10 +0000

Thanks for the article and for sharing such hidden inside info with us.

By: Marco

Marco — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:51:33 +0000

Nice article. I probably won’t be frequenting techcrunch as often in the future.

By: Patricia Skinner

Patricia Skinner — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:53:40 +0000

Hi Joshua, thanks for the compliment.

Yes I have had people tell me they’re unfollowing TechCrunch on Twitter, and won’t be reading the blog anymore too. It’s surprising how many people feel strongly about it: we only have to look at the number of articles on the subject in the past few days to gauge the emotion.

By: Joshua Odmark

Joshua Odmark — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:15:22 +0000

Classic case of someone believing everything they read.

Quoting EV, CEO of Twitter:

@TechCrunch @arrington “we have been given the green light by Twitter to post this information” What?! By whom? That’s not our understanding

By: Anu Patel

Anu Patel — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:50:14 +0000

He teamed up with Twitter to help them make lemonade out of lemons.
All that was printed was done with the cooperation of Twitter to get publicity for Techmunch and to create spin for Twitter.

YAWN, next.

By: Joshua Odmark

Joshua Odmark — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:41:04 +0000

What a fantastic article, thanks Patricia.

I am just sitting here in the calm before the storm.

I half expected Twitter to pounce all over TechCrunch, but I have yet to see any public move from Twitter.

I personally know a lot of professionals that have sworn off TechCrunch because they decided to run the confidential Twitter documents.