Comments on: TechCrunch Posts Leaked Twitter Documents, Twitter Not Happy

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:59:45 +0000

You've summed it up right there. Yes, journalists do get information in shady ways, but TC didn't do it "for the public good," they just did it because they could; because they thought they'd look cool.

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:54:34 +0000

I really got turned off to TC a while back, when it posted an accusatory article without any verification, which, if I recall, didn't have much merit. I only go there now if I see a link to one of their articles show up elsewhere. A commenter on my site argued that journalists get info in shady ways all the time (he was just playing devil's advocate). I think the difference is there was nothing "for the public good" in these documents, like with Watergate or something like that. On the This Week in Tech podcast this week, they mentioned that TC even posted some documents showing some not-so-nice things that Twitter execs said about others, such as a Google executive. No reason for that at all.

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:51:34 +0000

Yeah, kind of. They've always had some sensationalist tendencies, but they're really pushing that end now.

By: deansaliba

deansaliba — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:47:41 +0000

It seems like TechCrunch are slowly turning into the blog equivalent of a tabloid newspaper.