socialmedian: Please take Scoble’s stopwatch away

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Submitted by Robdiana from Google Reader

Nov 01, 2009

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1 minute and 16 seconds for Google Reader to start up and load 1,500 friends is too long.

Well holy shit, a minute (don’t forget the sixteen seconds) for a web application to load in your browser and at the same time load all the multitude of feed data that comes along with having 1,500 friends is too long. Damn so I guess that means that Google Reader really is a piece of utter crap and that we should all ditch it and bow to the almighty Twitter.

Ya.

Okay.

Sure.

Wait a second though folks, lets get something straight here before we go off half cocked and do something stupid.

First off, the number of people who actually have that kind of number of feeds in their reader is probably so miniscule that it wouldn’t even show up as a blip on a GraphJam pie chart. Then to compound this kind of flawed thinking by suggesting that the reader which works – and works well – for 99.99999999999% of users is crap just because Robert Scoble thinks his special needs are the same needs as everyone else … well that’s just insulting to the hardworking developers.

So why does Twitter

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