I usually enjoy reading most of Techcrunch‘s posts from Michael Arrington on Twitter as I find them incisive and informative. Today’s rant against Twitter former Chief Architect just rubbed me the wrong way.

Is it or is it not Blaine Cook’s fault that Twitter seems to be in technical hell? Did Twitter’s early outages correspond to Blaine Cook’s vacations?

As far as I’m concerned, the answer to both questions is “who cares?!??”

Cook is not at Twitter anymore and blaming the guy who was there before has never solved any problem…

Twitter has not been playing the finger pointing game, nor should they. Their full attention is required to fix their performance problem and taking ownership is the best way to go about it. No excuses, just results.

Update: Twitter responds to Techcrunch’s post but is not taking the bait and stays on the high road. Excerpt: “The folks at TechCrunch singled out a former employee of Twitter by name in their questions but Twitter is a team—we share responsibility for our victories as well as our mistakes. (…)”. I’m starting to like the folks at Twitter

Tags: arrington, techcrunch, twitter

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