TechCrunch/OfferPal Drama–Much Ado About Very Little

So the inevitable “offers are scams” story finally blew on to the scene last week at the Virtual Goods Summit when TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington attacked OfferPal’s Anu Shukla for having misleading offers (e.g. sign up for Netflix, get 10,000 coinz) as a core part of her business. Anu responded with the now classic line “shit, doubleshit, and bullshit”, and the fun escalated over the past few days (see TC post here). At this point, market leader Zynga has thrown itself on its sword, saying it had made some mistakes with offers but was correcting them, MySpace has rushed out a press release against scam-like offers, Hot Or Not is proclaiming its saintliness by not accepting offers, blah, blah, blah.

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