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 that these are the tweets that Robert Scoble supposedly expended the cognitive effort on to determine that they were in some way worthy of special recognition and then took the time to act on that decision. Two tweets per hour, every hour, every day for six months? It boggles the imagination. In the end, though, it just serves to demonstrate that no opinion of Scoble’s is worth anything. Of course, all the evidence that one needs to make that determination is the fact that TechCrunch has the number one spot on his list of favorited twitters. Say no more. Seriously Robert, stop posting!
