Twitter becomes a big player in baseball
I saw this story linked from MLB Trade Rumors and thought it was interesting. I'm a big fan of Twitter and its pretty interesting a forum such as Twitter can have such an impact in a short amount of time.
I wonder what will be the "next big thing" that will impact how information is spread and discussed.
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Gots lots of opinions on the topic, as a journalist.
I just think most of them are not appropriate for a baseball blog though.
But Twitter has facilitated communication, as well as rampant rumor-mongering. It’s too bad that some (ahem) journalists (cough) rely on their Twitter sources to write stories and that “editors” are lazy enough to approve them.
by chilango2 on Dec 14, 2009 10:50 AM CST reply actions 3 recs
Interesting article.
I found Twitter a very enjoyable way to monitor the Winter Meetings, because I was getting info directly from the writers covering it. But, then again, I’m also a casual fan, so I could choose to navigate away from my Twitterstream it whenever the info (and rumor) overload got to be too much. I can only imagine how difficult it was to keep track of for Tim at MLBTR or anyone else.
Incidentally, Duk at Big League Stew wrote a similiar post on this subject here.
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