I follow almost every “big event” I watch on TV using Twitter. I love to see what people are saying about Kate Winslet’s dress and Joe Biden’s obsessive clock watching, and most importantly I love to know what I am missing. With my multi-tasking personality I often miss huge things while trying to watch tv, be online and do homework, but with Twitter updates I know when I missed something big and when to rewind.
One of my favorite past times is following Tweets during sporting events. This led me to think, how cool would it be if there was a sportscaster whose main job was to Tweet during the game. This dedicated person would give you a play-by-play of the game, in addition to great stats and information on the teams. It would be just like following the score on espn.com except you would have a real voice of someone who knows about the team.
Since I’m from Atlanta but live in Austin, this would be great for me! I am dieing to watch Atlanta Hawks basketball but since they don’t show it here I am stuck waiting til after the game to read about. Live tweets during the game would help me connect with the game on a whole new level.
Do you know of any teams or sportscasters who do this already? Would you follow certain games like this?
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Blake,
You should be following @HawksNBA for news and @HawksStats for stats. Both SportyTweets and StatTweets are building out services to improve the in-game experience.
StatTweets does excellent work on College Basketball already. NBA score updates soon to launch.
Thanks so much for the links Andy! I’m glad to see that college basketball is already up there, I actually just started following @TexasStats today.