I’ve heard of non-sequiturs coming from out in left field but never have a I seen one so unexplainably whacked out as Steve Gillmor’s post over on TechCrunch where he appears to be blaming Twitter’s problems right at the feet of FriendFeed. I say appears because today’s post was even more of a rambling mess than usual. After all how does one by any stretch of the imagination figure out how to include any reference to Hillary (Clinton) in a comment about FriendFeed being a parasite API sucker.

Along with blaming FriendFeed he piles it on the apparent masters of destruction:

Remember: I blame FriendFeed for this, and Robert Scoble, Steve Rubell, Dave Winer, and all the rest of the puppets and ex-Techcrunch analysts who, by appearing to rationally debate the pluses and minuses of FriendFeed versus Twitter, suggest FriendFeed even exists in the absence of Twitter. Nik Cubrilovic doesn’t help either with his cogent (except for the Rails part) analysis of Twitter’s scaling problems. Nowhere in this debate (most of it mercifully hidden forever behind the FriendFeed black hole where conversations go to die) was there a word spoken about the fatal Track bug until Jack hit the Off switch.

Now, in the cool clarity of no pulse whatsoever can we begin to rationally approach a solution. Forgetting that Hillary has shown no indication of processing the similar lack of pulse in her White House aspirations, let’s put the blame for all this squarely on the parasite API suckers and their dark master FriendFeed. Good.

Now as hard as it might be to try and wade through this convoluted verbiage there’s a couple of things that Mr. Gillmor is glossing over in his hunt for Techmeme placement. The first being that while Twitter is admittedly one of the largest contributors to the FriendFeed pipeline there are another 34 services that FriendFeed also pulls from if you add the information needed by FriendFeed in order to display it.

Most importantly though is the fact that the most requested item that I have seen yet that people want to hide is Twitter streams. Sure FriendFeed acts a backup for the many times that Twitter goes down and yes people almost by default add it as one of their lifestreams for FriendFeed to display but that doesn’t mean it is to blame for Twitter’s faults. After all it uses the same API that any of the third party desktop and web based clients use and is restricted the same way.

Just because Mr. Gillmor has suddenly discovered the Twitter glory doesn’t mean that he has any more of a clue as to what is causing Twitter problems than the rest of us. If the API is the problem that Twitter should shutdown access to it for everyone currently using it for their clients. Don’t blame a service built by people who probably have a better idea of how to build a scalable framework and API over a bunch who struck it lucky because Scoble got all hot and bothered over them after some conference.