Some think that the popular TechCrunch site is dominated by stories about Twitter. Is that true, however? While the site is unabashedly about early-stage and emerging companies in technology, so stories about Twitter are to be expected, I thought it would be fun to see whether stories there are as dominated by Twitter as some think.
The following figure compares company value and TechCrunch mentions (from the site’s API) for various companies. Value is either public market value, or a best estimate from recent funding rounds/acquisitions.
So, Twitter comes up much more often than you would expect given its value, that shouldn’t be too surprising given the TechCrunch focus on emerging companies. I was somewhat surprised to see Apple show up less often than you might expect, while Google was the focus somewhat more than its value/size would suggest.
Should we rename TechCrunch to TwitterCrunch though? No. It looks more like Mike & Co. are actually fairly democratic in what they write about, from Twitter to Google, and everything inbetween.
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