Ridiculous and very low. Clearly an answer to Blaine's last twits, which Arrington took personally: http://twitter.com/blaine

Arrington tries to disguise such a personal attack on technical terms, while it shows he knows very little about technology and has very low ethical principles. The problem is most people who read TechCrunch will consider the post to be accurate.

He's clearly too over-reliant on Twitter and feels emotional about its outages. Now that he's created a personal war between himself and Blaine Cook, don't expect anything from him or the rest of the Gillmor cronies to be anywhere near objective regarding Twitter.

I move to petition pg to institute a Hacker News-wide delete filter be placed on TechCrunch posts for a period of one year. Who's with me?

(I know I can filter them with Greasemonkey but my point is that they are almost always just linkbait and the rest of the HN community could easily skip them with no adverse effects)

Wow. Wow.

The article is depressingly ignorant, but the comments... the English language does not have a word that describes them. I love how the commenters all drop buzzwords about databases as though they have even the slightest clue about databases, computers, programming, or algorithms. Apparently being able to click "Post" makes you an expert on everything.

sigh. The world depresses me.

It seems to me that many TechCrunch posts about Twitter have a strong emotional component absent from most other posts. I worry that this undermines its objectivity on the subject.

The update states that the twitter team continues to be "constructively responsive to criticism" and doesn't get riled up. That just brings more support to the accusation that TechCrunch "is just doing this for attention." I fully support the News.YC TechCrunch ban.

Even if techcrunch is wrong, What do you guys think could be the reason for their outages? I am really intrigued by their scaling problem. What do you guys think?