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Twitter Acquisition of Summize Highly Unlikely

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

Want a good way to build a popular blog? Make up a story! According to “the sources” of what appears to be a high school student, Summize is being acquired by Twitter. Mike Arrington’s verification model for this source? Why a FriendFeed post from Jaso ... Continue reading »

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Jane
12 months ago

Did you see that GigaOM confirmed the story and says an announcement will be made next week?

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Nate Westheimer
12 months ago

Agreed!

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Jennifer Leggio
12 months ago

That's the thing with blogging. There's a rumor, do you want to be the idiot who jumps on the bandwagon or the first to confirm it? It's a tough balance since the rules of journalistic research sometimes don't apply (whether they should or not is an entirely different conversation).

When I was contemplating writing my blog about the topic this morning for ZDNet, I considered a lot of those factors. So I took a different approach, even though Om Malik had already allegedly confirmed the news. I posed everything as speculation and never claimed it to be fact, and what would happen "if" this goes through. That gives good market commentary without having to eat crow later. I've seen a lot of bloggers today and yesterday who will need to eat crow in one way or another. While I'm all for taking a stand, I would never do so based on just a rumor.

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