Comments on: Social Commentary Or Extremely Poor Taste?

By: Tash Zunaid

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:08:16 +0000

Well, this surely has a cultural impact if I’m not mistaken! As far as MG leaving, I find him one of the most entertaining blogger on here (that’s coming from a 14 year old)! Though I think he posted wayyy 2 many articles about anything/everything twitter–kinda getting tired of it! What’s with all the twitter hype? Isn’t it just posting your status update using a separte account(another hassle!)? Don’t get what the big deal is!

By: Christoph Kluge

Christoph Kluge — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:56:48 +0000

Pretty much this. I just clicked into this post because I wanted to support the twitter haters. For me, my personal way of keeping me informed > your proprietary twitter service. I don’t need twitter. That said, if Techcrunch had a Twitter-only section (twitcrunch), I might even check it out once a week or so to keep up with the latest twitter-hypes.

Sigh.

By: Anti Matter

Anti Matter — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:35:23 +0000

“The people starving to death there today are the same ones once shipped overseas as slaves. ”

Are u for real? How can they be shipped over to the new world and make it back to Africa and starve?

Their descendants in the new world are not starving, except maybe Haiti. The descendants of those who sold their brothers and sisters into slavery to savages are now starving. You get it now?

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By: Sally Relton Shakespeare

Sally Relton Shakespeare — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:46:30 +0000

we are the web (thanks @nicktadd); @starvingafrican is tweeting our collective conscience; when did Conscience start following fashion / good taste?

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:28:42 +0000

In favour of the above. Grab the domain twittercrunch.com, or have a BIG sodding button at the top to filter out these Twitter posts on TC and be done with it.

90% of TC content is a good read, but for those of us who haven’t given into the Twitterbubble (I for one aren’t narcissistic enough to have to jot my daily thoughts 15 times a day to people who I don’t really know or care about) it gets very frustrating to have to wade through these posts.

I’m heavily involved in the web-industry but it doesn’t mean I need a bloody Twitter account to be part of it! It makes me so frustrated!!

By: Violet

Violet — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:05:23 +0000

You people missed the point entirely–that this posting was not about starving african children but instead about the disparity between twitterer’s relentless stream of narcissistic BS status updates and the unchanging status of a starving african child: hungry… About the dichotomy of a world where we have the technology and ability to stay completely connected all the time (for no other reason than to stroke our own egos) but do not have the solution yet to a problem like hunger.

By: Donkey Face

Donkey Face — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:33:54 +0000

TC is really going downhill, simply mentioning Twitter or Craiglist in the post doesn’t automatically make it a TC material, or does it?

By: TS

TS — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:16:03 +0000

Who are these pricks busting MG’s balls every two seconds over the number of followers and little pointless details.

Go feed some poor kids and quit complaining, scumbags.

Keep’n it real.
-TS

By: Chris Wheat

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:03:24 +0000

I am sorry, but MG has to go… These posts don’t fit into what techcrunch is supposed to be about “obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to covering new companies, we profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the new web space.”

That is from TC’s own about page… MG please explain how your most recent dribble fits into this??? I mean an article about a twitter account that talks about hunger that has a whopping 302 people looking at it?? Is this really the best journalism or blogging you can bring to the table?

If so join do us all a favor and join the blogging efforts of the Perez Hiltons and leave techcrunch, or pull your head out of TWITTER CLOUDS for a minute and bring something better to techcrunch.

By: rosy

rosy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:40:12 +0000

the world’s nutted up now, we just addin’ to it.
we still got em kid who starved on da street.

By: YoDaddy

YoDaddy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:53:29 +0000

If it has anything to do with Apple or Twitter… it will be on TechCrunch.

By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:06:12 +0000

Blame is easy, solutions are hard. Easier to make you feel guilty that you have so much, when there are poor twitter users out there who are hungry (yes, I purposely missed the point the twidiot starvingafrican was making, instead of focusing on the “good” this internet connected, social blamer was attemtping to make us all feel guilty about.) Just goes to show you, 10000000 monkeys, with a 100000000 typewriters…. can tweet.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:56:53 +0000

Correct. This statement (”Apparently the 300-some people that follow the account don’t think so.”) is not likely to be true at all.

By: Alex N

Alex N — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:09:34 +0000

I’d have to agree with you anon. TechCrunch has taken an annoying bent toward long pedantic posts about the ups and downs of iTunes and Twitter – with MG mostly to blame. He seems to treat TC like his personal Twitter account, except he limits himself to 1400 words instead of 140 characters. How about getting back to interesting content?

@Matt – TechCrunch is hardly the forum for bringing every social issue to the fore. Certainly something people should be concerned about, but if TC were that forum, there would be no tech news.

By: max

max — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:50:07 +0000

What’s the big deal. This is just as blunt as those black and white commercials of starving kids you see on TV.
Oh look at this! http://www.feed...ngchildren.org/
Quick write something up about how this is a horrible website cause i see a couple starving children on it who probably just had dung beatles as a snack.

By: mark

mark — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:40:50 +0000

I agree 100% they’ve succeeded in painting an entire continent as impoverished, you’d think there are no cities, no successful businessmen and everybody just sits there and waits for western donations.. in actual fact less than 5% of africans actually need aid, there are countries like Gabon who’ve never even needed it..

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:11:27 +0000

It’s tacky. Unless this person proves that he or she is somehow helping starving people in Africa, it is silly to try and personify one. In fact, I think it’s insulting to the underprivileged that someone with seemingly little to know tangible understanding of their struggle is speaking on their behalf like this … probably sitting on his couch watching TV with one hand in a bag of chips.

By: ASJS

ASJS — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:25:52 +0000

If social commentary is really the goal here, it might be a helpful if the tweeter thought about Africa as a continent of 53 countries rather than a mass of starving people.

I would imagine the architects of Africa’s more successful states would appreciate a little less condescension and a little more access to the international business community.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:23:14 +0000

I think he means you’re a knee-jerk asshole. The people starving to death there today are the same ones once shipped overseas as slaves.

The elite are still living just fine.

By: Clay

Clay — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:50:27 +0000

I have to stop reading comments… if only all the people who can only complain about people who post something complaining and not putting forth a solution could have a solution that would keep this from happening.

I don’t really expect a twitter account to offer any solutions to children starving in africa, but one person reminding me about it drives it home than any statistics could. He’s just got another follower.

Oh and everyone who is hating on this article, remember it wouldn’t be above the fold if everyone didn’t read it, stop hating yourselves for what we make popular.

By: Ben Nash

Ben Nash — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:33:51 +0000

Um obviously this Twitter account is raising awareness, so it’s good. Thanks Twitter for creating such a great tool for sharing everything.

By: Anti Matter

Anti Matter — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:24:07 +0000

Wrong. Karma baby.

By: Casual

Casual — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:15:14 +0000

Seriously, some Twitter account with 300 followers is big news? I have inactive accounts that have accrued more followers.

By: alessandro

alessandro — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:11:44 +0000

anybody who thinks this is bad taste has obviously been consuming more than their fair share..