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So... and this is a serious question.

Let's say you cover the next Twitter or Facebook before they become the next Twitter or Facebook. Once they explode in popularity, are you going to stop writing about them? Even though those articles are getting the most traffic on the site? And tons of speciality sites start appearing just about Twitter and Facebook. And you even know people from Twitter and Facebook since you profiled them when they were little, and can get the inside scoop on changes and upcoming features.

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A very good question. Will they be really able to resist "Poxxer, who we broke the news on in 2011 here and here" ...pfft always hate that <a><a><a> start to a blog post.

If they really would drop startups that made it big they could make it a feature. Instead of a deadpool, they can add startups to a bigpool, and tease the major sites with it: "we followed them then, you follow them now"

Ha! I like that idea! Thanks for that!

To be honest with you....your question is a good one. And since I am not the editor or the founder of the site I cannot say with 100% certainty that this is correct but my answer would be: yes. The main focus of the site is to cover startups. As far as I know there are no rules for only covering them when they are small. So if something I write about explodes like a Facebook or Twitter I will certainly being following up with them. In my mind that would be a "gold mine" of an article in terms of information both for myself and for our readers. Now would I beat it to death and write twelve articles about it in a five day period just to get the page views? No. That crap drives me crazy. I would like to think that I would only cover them if something significant was happening with them.

How does MacRumors decide when they are going to do another story on something that is hot?

I will check with my boss/editor and see what his thoughts are on the subject...

Well, it's easy with MacRumors since Apple is hot. And that's what we write about. :)

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