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So TechCrunch behaved like jackasses and showed stuff Twitter didn't want to have shown, while according to your theory using Twitter as a way to make money, and that's okay?

It's called biting the hand that feeds you, and it's an old old saying. If TC still hasn't figured out it's a bad idea, nuts to them.

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I'm probably slightly playing devils advocate but I don't mean to be controversial for the sake of it, I just think this is interesting.

TC is media/journalism and even if that's at a tabloid level personally I do believe that companies shouldn't withdraw privileges or sanction a media company based on unfavorable stories being written about them.

I think its a bad precedent to set even on this minor scale.

But TechCrunch is wholly unprofessional. They have no standards. You can't have morals when you're dealing with amoral people.

Say what you will about Mashable—and I could say tons—they generally play the game earnestly and fairly. While I don't hate TechCrunch and enjoy a few of their articles, it's a scum site with scum standards.

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