TechCrunch has published some Twitter stats with a graph that shows trends both before and after its Twitter account was suggested.

While there’s a decent spike in followers at this point, Michael Arrington concludes:

We love these new users, but they aren’t nearly as valuable to us as the ones that we fought for in the early days of Twitter.

OK, you love them but they’re not as valuable. Quite what this definition of valuable is, I’m not clear. In any case, I can’t remember when I joined @TechCrunch but I’ve since stopped following.

For the record, anyone wanting to follow me on Twitter will be most welcome indeed, no matter how valuable you think you are. No strings or variable value assessments attached. Oh, no spammers, though.