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Blaine Cook, one of the original Twitter founders, recently left Twitter to go on to different things. Twitter has had a very public history of downtime in the recent months. Coupled with the recent growth in the application, we’ve seen a lot of people hating on Twitter lately.

I was reading Tech Crunch and noticed a podcast that had Blaine Cook on the show to ask him about Twitter. I thought it would be interesting to hear his insight on how Twitter works at the developer level and how their team worked to create such a hugely popular application.

As I started listening to the show, which had Robert Scoble, Mike Arrington, Dana Gardner, and Robert W. Anderson hosting, I could tell it was going to be a negative show on Twitter. Scoble opened by bitching about Twitter being down at the moment. I find it funny how he and Arrington can bitch so badly about this free service being down, yet they exploit it for their own marketing usage on a major level. Stop your bitching and thank these people for creating a free service you use to spam everyone to drive more traffic to your sites.

Blaine was awesome. He essentially stepped up and jumped into a tank of sharks blasting Twitter. There were a number of times he was answering their questions and they interrupted and flatly said he was not answering the question. Of course it was because it wasn’t the political or business answer they wanted to hear.

This panel is obviously not a group of engineers. They very obviously do not understand the technical challenge involved in creating anything like Twitter. Listening to the podcast, I felt bad for Blaine. He’s trying to be helpful, taking time out of his schedule, and answering these ignorant questions.

The Gillmor Gang podcast is not something I listen to on a regular basis, and after having listened to this show, I’ll never listen to it again. It’s nothing more than a group of people that think they know more about technology than they actually do. Do yourself a favor and ignore it.