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I think Michael talks about Twitter because he genuinely loves the service.

What about all of the posts he did last year when the service kept going down? Do you think all of that negativity was paid for by Twitter too?

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That 'negativity' helped twitter. It would have hurt them if TechCrunch had just ignored them and not mentioned twitter. But they kept on and on and on relentlessly about it.

There's no bad publicity.

That's a complete fallacy, there is such a thing as bad publicity... either that, or the whole ribbing that mega-corporation Mcdonald's took from Spurlock's "Supersize Me" was imaginary.

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