Comments on: Twitter Hits Back At TechCrunch

By: Wilson Pon

Wilson Pon — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:34:31 +0000

WoW, it looks like Twitter has different types of controversy everyday. This make it even hotter than the FaceBook!

By: Team Nirvana

Team Nirvana — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:30:06 +0000

Initially all this hullabaloo was thought to be spewing news all over the world tech news. But, just after 2 days this thing appears to be turning nasty with one of the biggest blog TC and an amazing/despising Twitter are waging a war filled with rage and hatred.

I suppose Twitter has to be given the vote of concern here. What happens later if TechCrunch’s private docs are sent to Twitter? I am waiting to see this.

By: Pallab

Pallab — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:27:52 +0000

@Shantanu : Unfortunately their business is breaking news. They are actually minding their own business when they are publishing twitter’s growth estimates.

I think TC has shown enough restraint, by nor publishing anything that would qualify was extremely sensitive like confidential agreements with other companies.

By: Pallab

Pallab — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:24:38 +0000

My first reaction to TC post revealing that they have been emailed confidential docs by a hacker was – this is gonna be fun.

And it seems things are certainly gonna get hotter.

Btw, I am among those people who believe TC isnt really doing anything wrong.
It may not be upto the highest standards of ethics, but isnt all that wrong. They would have been wrong if they had revealed more sensitive material. So far they havent actually revealed anything which would really hurt the company. Just some curious and interesting stuff.

And consider how a journalist normally gets his info. Journalist generally have their own sources, who in turn has contacts with a lot of inside people. The inside people pass along the info to the source who then passes it on to the journalist.
Here the source is the hacker. He has illegal access to the docs which he passes on to the journalist.

By: Shantanu

Shantanu — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:56:32 +0000

I am completely with twitter in this. Tech Crunch behaved like a little sissy blog here trying to get some more page views. They should really mind their own business rather than trying to get cheap publicity from this.