And these same CEOs tell me that FriendFeed is coming up fast and is #3. They tell me all other blogs bring far less than these three sources. - Robert Scoble

Whoever breaks news first on Twitter gets the credit now, they tell me. - Robert Scoble

Thanks God! At last truth happened - directeur

Twitter news sources now validated by mainstream? - http://andrew-long.name

When you want the exclusive news like TC wants, it's a perfect storm that Mike posted. Now he gets exactly what he wants. Great power play move. - Rex

Watch out directeur, I'm going to break your news (he just showed me something which is most cool). - Robert Scoble

I wonder if we'll start to see embargos on news that gets sent to popular twitter users before they tweet it... - Cory OBrien

Cory: I'm holding directeur's news until he Tweets it himself. - Robert Scoble

interesting - in my post just now i said exactly what you just said - let me add your twitter comment to my post - http://www.centernetworks.com/arringt... - Allen Stern

TechCrunch is a PR Bot, you'll get differend points of view from Twitter - paul mooney

Also, it's a little unfair to compare Twitter to individual blogs, b/c Twitter is an aggregator of all different writers and their communities. To compare apples to apples, you'd have to look at Twitter compared to every blog as one. - Cory OBrien

techcrunch built it's popular blog on the good old journalistic standby of being first and being prolific, not on deep thorough analysis. If your job is to be first then embargo's are just an impediment and risk someone else being first. Startups need to realize that being covered on techcrunch is much less important than good technology and a solid business model, that will get everyone talking about you in this ocean of mediocre technology plays, businesses need business model and strategy to win - karl

Haven't we all seen this coming? I remember this being talked about a year ago. With more users, it will only become more obvious. - Shawn Kirsch

I wonder when Friendfeed will move ahead of Twitter. Within a year? - Sean McBride

Mike's entire business model is built on controversy. We get at least one a week. He's good at what he does, but if he pisses off too many people, he may regret it. - David Semeria

Robert, thanks a lot! :) You knew how I could ninja-kill people, and you respected the samuraï in me! I appreciate this :) - directeur

Mike's been pissed off ever since he found that his particular brand of BS doesn't wash in Europe. @karl +1 I'm invested in one such. Never been on TC, no desire to go there and have our servers crushed for a day to the detriment of customers. - Dennis Howlett

What if Twitter assigned authority to users based on several factors, then you could watch news break and be able to tell if it was coming from reliable sources. - Kelly Johns

Doesn't the use of twitter democratize weather an item is newsworthy or not? Newsworthy items rise through the system organically and are editorialized by the many and not the few. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

Old School: PR embargos, mass distribution, voicemails and Word docs; New School: Concise writing, great multimedia content, and open doors (transparency) and http://pitchengine.com - Jason Kintzler

@Kelly Johns That's an intriguing thought. - Shawn Kirsch

Will one source replace another, or will all sources complement each other? TechCrunch still has a wide readership. So does the Wall Street Journal. - Ed Moltzen

I suspect we'll see TechCrunch peter out in the next couple of years. Why subscribe to it, when you can just use Techmeme to filter it and get the few worthwhile stories per week out of the dozens? I personally find that I am getting a lot more info from Twitter, and FF, than from the big tech blogs. - Bruce Keener

Why? Attention seeking. Why else. - Michael Krigsman

@Dennis Howlett word, yeah, it's an illusion that somehow your biz will take off if it get's coverage on techcrunch. You will get a lot of feedback via techcrunch comments, and some traffic but that will not sustain a business. A business model that creates value and attracts new customers is the winning formula and plenty of people want to write about that :-) - karl

it's a great way of getting news out a lot quicker than the normal blog, usually because it's easier to write a couple of sentences than an actual well written blog. people like their news fast, simple and easy these days. also, i don't like this "i twittered first! this is my story!" BS. isn't the whole point of twitter and friendfeed to get the news out there, not for the ego? - Terry O'Fee

As Richard mentions, the point of an embargo is to give a journalist time to prepare, ideally as recognition of their expertise and authority in the field. PR firms who send mass embargoed releases to writers with whom they don't have a relationship miss the point, but of course they're also missing the point when they spam and pester. As Twitter - or even RSS - becomes more common and people can get a direct line to news they want, this won't be an issue. And outlets like TechCrunch will lose relevance. - David B. Thomas

this does remind me of pitchengine.com - digg for news - Susan Beebe

Interesting take, but I'd be surprised if that's it. Arrington just wants more exclusives, plain and simple. Exclusives drive more traffic, and there's not a huge amount of value in writing up every story when 20 other sites are doing the same thing. Even if they lose 50% of incoming stories, but get a 10% rise in exclusives, it will more than compensate for any loss.... - Duncan Riley

Duncan: TechCrunch is going to lose more and more exclusives to Twitter and FriendFeed, based on what startup CEO's are telling me. You probably are right, though, that TechCrunch will win some by doing this. - Robert Scoble

Getting TC'd is only about 15k hits over three days. Really not that big a deal, it's more for the general pr. - Alex Wilhelm (FF BLOWS)