Mashable is the biggest blog about Web 2.0 - not TechCrunch. Or at least that’s what Feedburner and Compete statistics suggest.
One would think TechCrunch is the biggest, as it gets more comments and has a higher Alexa rank. Compete disagrees; it shows Mashable gets more than twice as many visitors as TechCrunch (at least from its US-based members). Feedburner also shows Mashable has around 415,000 subscribers to its RSS feed (which I believe is somewhat unrealistic; I doubt that many people have an interest in Web 2.0) while TechCrunch has 126,000 readers.
So here’s what I wonder. How come Mashable doesn’t host massive parties or get into controversies or create needless version in other languages (or indeed dialects)?
My guess is Mashable’s author, Pete Cashmore, keeps a much lower profile than Arrington.
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I wrote about this on my blog a couple of weeks ago and had a reader admonish me about it. I simply stated that Mashable blew TechCrunch out of the water as far as subscribers to RSS.
You can see the comments here and some corrections that I made so as not to anger my readers.
Widgets Lab ยป Mashable beats TechCrunch readership?
I was surprised to read this…
I just read the widgets lab post, too (from the comment link)…so what’s the deal, mashable has more rss readers & visitors?
wow, with all the techcrunch hype, you would think they were #1…
The only reason why techcrunch gets so many more comments is because he makes much less sense that’s why.
I’m not saying that his reporting/blogging is bad it’s just that at most times he doesn’t really know what he’s talking about.