Technorati was down....and nobody cared

[QuirkyJessi]

Technorati: How the Mighty Have Fallen - Mashable

Late last week, Technorati was down for over 12 hours. I checked Friendfeed and Twitter, and there was barely a mention of it. I was surprised that Technorati being down garnered so little conversation. It seemed like Technorati went down, and nobody cared. The most recent blog entry only mentions an outage from the previous week, but the Technorati Twitter account does mention “A major bout with bots.”

When did people stop caring about Technorati? Is it the lack of new features? Or, is the decline just due to the fact that people do not care about what it offers any more? I find the lack of interest to be odd. Bloggers live by the numbers. They spend plenty of time checking the daily traffic statistics and subscriber levels. Technorati authority used to be one of the statistics that was checked often. So, what happened? The problem is that nothing happened.

Do you still actively use Technorati? I personally haven't checked it in months....maybe I should.

[Bloggeries]

Sad but true; I have never ever really used it to search for blogs and haven't even been there in forever.

I think something similar may happen to many FREE blog directories if they get so many blogs etc it becomes pointless as the majority are dead or useless.

[ghing]

I didn't even know that technorati is down.. I can't even remember when does the last time I use technorati..

[Bloggeries]

I just use google.com or blogsearch.google.com and mainly just the first to find blogs.

[abhbah05]

I tried using it, but I have already given up on it because it hasn't done anything for me in a month. I still send it pongs though.

[ffnstuff]

Technorati isnt the blogging resource it used to be. I rarely ever add new blogs to it