Twittering games

[gutenberg]

Just last night a colleague of mine was tweeting constantly from a top 25 team's football game. The SID tweeted back to him that the game was on national TV, so he didn't need to giving play by play. He didn't order him to stop, but it was a suggestion that what he was doing was "bad."

Heard something similar in my area of the country. College beat guy was given a very hard time by SID about the amount of twittering he was doing with a "you're missing a good game" thrown in.

 

[Babs]

I tried twittering during a game and it was too distracting. I don't plan to keep doing it. In fact, I don't like twitter much even to read. I like thoughts to be more fleshed out. I may have the opposite of ADHD.

 

[Cosmo]

TWEET

 

[littlehurt98]

I'm no twit, I don't tweet.

 

[Den1983]

Twitter us only as good as who you follow. If follow the right people, it's great. If not, it sucks.

Pretty much.

I, too, am one who thinks it will die down some sooner than later. It already has to a certain extent in my area already.

 

[Speedbump]

Like it or not, right now Twitter is all the rage with employers in a wide range of media fields (even if they have no idea what it is or how to use it, they know the name). So jumping on the bandwagon can at the very least give you a job skill that is very marketable right now.

And in a lot of situations, I would rather use Twitter to microblog and interact with fans and followers than wait for traffic to come to a blog that relies so heavily on placement and play on a news organization's Web site. I hate relying on other people to drive traffic my way when I could do it myself, and probably more effectively and efficiently.