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 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!