[forensic]

I don't understand what we're supposed to do with 500 twitter feeds. Surely you don't read all those?

And to be perfectly honest, I usually can't stomach reading to the end of the typical TechCrunch article, let alone reading an entire week's worth just to impress a journalist.

Do you really expect engineers to read blog hype day in and day out?

You make me feel like one of those old people who uses his mouse to click "Search" on Google.

[RobertScoble]

I read them every day. It's one page. I get tons of useful things and see how companies are evolving. You should follow your own list. Maybe it's just your five competitors. Maybe just follow techcrunch. I even follow Hacker News in one list. A Twitter list, by the way, is NOT 500 separate feeds. It's one feed on one page but is a mixture of 500 feeds.

[sailormoon]

Scoble, no disrespect, because I actually quite like you. You're one of the most successful "Me, Inc." people I've ever seen. But what do you do all day?

I'll tell you what I do. I develop software. What do you do? You're a PR hound - a very good one, I must say.

You're a PR hound trying to underline the importance of PR hounds like yourself. That is not, in and of itself, a bad thing. But you must understand that many, if not most, startups simply do not have the manpower to do that kind of thing.

Diverting precious resources to assign someone to read and respond to 500 twitter feeds seems like the worst thing a startup could do. And it's a bad sign, of no product and all marketing. That might be great for some companies. But it's not a panacea and should definitely not be a blanket recommendation.

[_pius]

Diverting precious resources to assign someone to read and respond to 500 twitter feeds seems like the worst thing a startup could do. And it's a bad sign, of no product and all marketing.

It's probably just a sign of marketing, saying nothing one way or another about your product.

[sailormoon]

Yeah, it could actually be a good sign - it says you've got money to burn, so someone obviously believes in you.

That's all very well. But Scoble tries to label it a sign of cluelessness, when in actuality it's a rational ROI decision.