Driving me bananas

Dog8Cats · Dec 15, 2015

Understood, SnarkShark. I think we're looking at that aspect of the OP's situation from difference perspectives -- you from the reporter's, mine from the sports editor's/management's.

Ace · Dec 15, 2015

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I come to this late, but with a comment about Twitter.

It's pretty hard to fathom a situation - before the state title game or some really notable game - where a preps basketball writer would tweet consistently in a manner that engaged Twitter community users would care about. Maybe in Texas for HS football, but, still, I doubt it. Twitter is a place for a continuing - albeit in 140 characters -- conversation/debate. I can't imagine what conversation/debate Podunk vs. East Podunk would create that would require, say, more than two informational tweets per quarter. Scores, points, etc. Anything else, really, is time-wasting, and, I'm serious about this: Don't let millennials or consultants tell you different. They're wrong or they don't know. Twitter sucks as a traffic generator, and it's rarely worth the time at the preps level. Most of the kids aren't on Twitter. Most of their parents aren't on Twitter. Most fans who'd care are either there, know someone who is, or merely want basic updates.

Is it a "feel" situation? Sure. It's a feel situation. If somebody breaks their leg on the court and the bone is sticking out, that changes things. Or if a fight starts in the stands. Or if the score is 37-0 heading into the second half, you might ratchet up the level of tweets to chart when the team with "0" finally scores. That all makes sense.

But the rest, at least during a game, is a writer, frankly, a little addicted to Twitter. That doesn't help anybody.

Unfortunately, most older editors and writers are so snowed by what Twitter - or unwilling to "unsnow" themselves, more likely, that they let it go.

At the college and pro level, there's some pretty good argument for it. it helps build a base. It generates conversation. it's advertising.

At the preps level, it's just a writer working out their self-image.
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If a reporter tweets about a high school football/basketball game and he or she doesn't routinely put the score in the tweets, it bugs me.

I want to know the score and how much time is left. The rest is gravy. Gravy by itself is pretty unappealing.

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