Scoble’s Twitter Madness

Here’s another quick bit to remind peo­ple that noth­ing that Scoble says is of any par­tic­u­lar worth. If you read any Scooby at all, then you know that he is obsessed with point­less lists. This one though is per­fect as an exam­ple of the fact that Scoble’s opin­ion is essen­tially worth­less. In the arti­cle Robert states that he has a data­base of 11,000 tweets that he has favor­ited since June 2009. Let that num­ber bake into your nog­gin for a bit. Eleven thou­sand tweets favor­ited, not just merely seen by his account. That implies that Robert must have put at least some min­i­mal thought into the content.

Now let’s do some math. By my cal­cu­la­tions, there were 214 days from begin­ning of June 2009 until the end of December. If we assume that Scoble mon­i­tored Twitter every sin­gle one of those 214 days then that gives us 51.4 tweets favor­ited per day. If we then assume that Robert main­tains a twenty-four hour a day vigil, favorit­ing tweets like some sort of New Media Douchebag machine, then that works out to 2.14 tweets favor­ited per hour.

I keep stress­ing the “favor­ited” part of the equa­tion, because it’s impor­tant to remember

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Scoble Explains It All…Incorrectly

While I was in the midst of my lat­est attempt to prove that a man can be pow­ered by ethanol alone, Betanews ran an utterly retarded opin­ion piece by Joe Wilcox titled: The world doesn’t need an Apple tablet, or any other. There is much that is fun­da­men­tally wrong with Joe’s piece, but I don’t want to talk about that. Fortunately I don’t have to talk about Joe’s errors because the tech pun­di­tards sal­lied forth en masse to white – knight a non-existent prod­uct (remem­ber, until Apple announces the gods damned thing, it ain’t real). Amongst the herd rush­ing to defend all things “tablet” was our good friend, and absolute moron Robert Scoble.

In a pre­co­cious bit of blo­g­or­rhea titled: Oh, Joe, the world doesn’t need a Tablet? Really? Robert springs to the defense of the tablet plat­form. Sadly, he also demon­strates that what Robert Scoble under­stands about tech­nol­ogy could be writ­ten in twenty-four point font on the back of a postage stamp; with room to spare.

Robert’s attempt to defend the maiden honor or the tablet takes the form of a litany of suc­cess­ful tablet com­put­ing devices that have already suc­ceeded in the mar­ket. Items he refers

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