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What would be interesting to know is if Twitter got this list from somewhere else, or if they actually analyze which passwords were most commonly chosen by its tens of millions of users in the past

I thought it was the journalist's job to research, not the reader's. Would it be that hard to fire up an email to Twitter and say 'hey, this is Techcrunch, we have a question...'? It's not like this is urgent news and must be published right now or become worthless...

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In the New Model, it's good for a site like TC to leave obvious questions unanswered, or even a blatant error or two in the story. It triggers comments and followup stories!

Simply put, in the New Model editorial professionalism is just as irrelevant as in the Old Model.

Like the old model, editorial professionalism is simply to bring return customers and provide a larger market base to your advertisers.

"this is Techcrunch"

There's your answer!

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