does anyone else just f'n hate live tweeting?

[spankys]

I preface this by saying I love twitter. I love having links to the work of all my favorite writers in one spot each day. I love seeing good analysis and good humor. And I love how it gives fans a way to interact with athletes and celebrities they otherwise would not have.

But I hate live tweeting. If you follow like 5 people who cover a specific team, I really don't want all of them to clog my feed my telling me "big 3 yard run for joe schmo" in 5 different ways. then, seconds later "incomplete pass...3rd and 8 coming." And on and on. A select few focus on analysis, but for the most part, especially on college football days, it's out of control. If you care that much, you'd be watching the game, and if you can't watch, you can follow a gamecast online.

I know I could unfollow or not go on, but as I said, I frikin love twitter for everything else. Does anyone see a value in the live tweet that I'm missing? Or do they annoy you too?

Spankys


everything else.

 

[SixToe]

Not a fan of live PBP updates. Be judicious.

 

[BujuBanton]

I agree. Constant updates are brutal. One local guy does it so much you want to unfollow him on Friday nights.

 

[Mark2010]

There are plenty of sites that do PBP for college and pro games, probably some high school games, too.

Don't need to read it, don't need to type it.

Always felt that was the domain of broadcasting. Nowdays, so many stations stream their broadcasts that one can follow Podunk High if they live in Timbuktu.

 

[BujuBanton]

there is one school in our are where the student's have started taking my picture and posting it on twitter while I'm covering volleyball. It was pretty odd the first time it happened, but it doesn't bother me now that it's happened several times.
Anyone else getting odd twitter interactions? I take it as a compliment. And, hey at least they're reading/following.

 

[dragonzo]

I think it's good for score updates (at least for football) and maybe an update at basketball timeouts, but I agree that PBP tweeting can be monotonous. When I've covered high school football and am tweeting updates, I update the score and that's it; too busy keeping stats otherwise.

 

[lantaur]

I know one writer who used to set up a different Twitter account. He had one as his "main" and then one for gamedays. So people who didn't want the non-stop gameday talk didn't have to follow that one. Not sure if he posted gameday stuff (like maybe a notable event) on his main account, though.

 

[podunk press]

I'm annoyed by live Tweeting as well. If you clog my feed and Tweet too much, I'm going to stop following you. I want to be entertained and enlightened on Twitter. If you can't do both, and you clog my feed, see you later.

There are a lot of prominent national folks who are either annoying or condescending on Twitter, and I just don't follow them as a result.

 

[mediaguy]

You can always just unfollow on game day and pick it back up on Sunday. I try to limit in-game tweets to when there are scores, or more if it's tight late in final minutes ...

 

[murphyc]

If you think live PBP tweeting a game is bad, how about live PBP tweeting during a candidate forum? This spring the local chamber of commerce co-hosted a forum for various candidates going for various offices. Person from the chamber tweeted throughout the 90-minute event. Egads.

 

[Simon]

Anyone who live tweets should have twitter taken away.

 

[ondeadline]

That is annoying, but so is the term "live tweeting." Every tweet is live tweeting unless you type a tweet and schedule it to be posted at a later time.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

I started my paper's twitter feed two years ago now. We don't post play-by-play, just scoring updates throughout games we're covering.

But when Kentucky is playing, our feed is littered with tweets from seven or eight different folks -- from the Courier Journal in Louisville and the Herald Leader in Lexington -- posting the same information in different ways. It is funny, though, when those same folks are at a presser and you get seven or eight versions of the same quote.

 

[spankys]

Yeah sometimes it's as if beat writers are racing each other with the live event tweets.
"two foul shots coming for jones" 8:58.23
"Jones steps to the line for a pair" 8:58.37

Ill give my next miniscule paycheck to the person who creates a twitter-like feed for running event coverage only. I actually like the idea of writers having two feeds, one dedicated solely to mundane game updates.

 

[Bradley Guire]

Whatever happened to CoverItLive? Used that all the time for live games (which no one followed in the pissant area in which I live).

 

[buckweaver]

Whatever happened to CoverItLive? Used that all the time for live games (which no one followed in the pissant area in which I live).

Gotta pay for it now.

 

[GidalKaiser]

Sometimes we still use CoverItLive for college basketball/football coverage, but mostly relatively live-tweeting. Cut down on it a lot - only tweet out scoring plays/big plays, observations in between quarters/halftime/innings/stoppages (volleyball, soccer) or at media timeouts.

 

[Doc Holliday]

No tweeting gameday play-by-play at all here. Undermines our work. People are getting the scores from the radio or watching it on TV or some other media. Seems pointless. In this day and age, being "first" doesn't mean crap 98 percent of the time. Being the best, however, means quite a bit 100 percent of the time.

 

[Desk_dude]

And I despise people who link their live tweeting to their Facebook page.

 

[Liut]

No tweeting gameday play-by-play at all here. Undermines our work. People are getting the scores from the radio or watching it on TV or some other media. Seems pointless. In this day and age, being "first" doesn't mean crap 98 percent of the time. Being the best, however, means quite a bit 100 percent of the time.

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