Comments on: How to use Twitter properly to enhance your baseball experience http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/how-to-use-twitter-properly-to-enhance-your-baseball-experience/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:02:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: handsfour http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/how-to-use-twitter-properly-to-enhance-your-baseball-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-124361 Sat, 02 Apr 2011 07:26:49 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48405#comment-124361 yankeesgameday, thanks for the thoughts. I may yet have to give Tweetdeck a try.

]]> By: yjforsuccess http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/how-to-use-twitter-properly-to-enhance-your-baseball-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-123672 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:08:52 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48405#comment-123672 I follow primarily for the breaking news. I’m a huge fantasy baseball fan and I’m knee-deep in about 7 leagues. Several league mates always ask me, “How’d you find out before ESPN!?”

I just smile and shrug.

Perfect example: It was floating around this morning that Brandon Belt might win the job. I picked him up. They just announced it officially 20 minutes ago. Now, when my friends see my pick up 8 hours ago, they’ll scratch their heads and wonder what the heck just happened.

And the occasional tweeting with the Marlins players is fun too!

]]> By: dasher521 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/how-to-use-twitter-properly-to-enhance-your-baseball-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-123654 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:54:49 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48405#comment-123654 People look out me as if I’m crazy being on Twitter. When I explain that I follow many of the sportwriters and better local bloggers, they say they didn’t think of that. It’s also great to follow the opposing team and find out what is current with them. I really don’t like to admit it, but in many instances I’m on it at the ballpark.

]]> By: ngearhart1981 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/how-to-use-twitter-properly-to-enhance-your-baseball-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-123602 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:07:59 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48405#comment-123602 Well, crap. Here, I was convinced that Craig WAS Old Hoss Radbourn.
Dead serious.

]]> By: sportsdrenched http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/how-to-use-twitter-properly-to-enhance-your-baseball-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-123571 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:11:36 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48405#comment-123571 I started using Twitter last summer after repeatadly hearing Sports Updates that started or ended with “via Twitter”.

No reason I can’t follow on Twitter and then I don’t need the sports updates.

Since then it’s morphed like Craig described. I follow mostly baseball people. But I have lists for other sports too.

I also get the “roll eyes” and “oh no you’re one of them” look when people find out I use Twitter. I used to be one of those people.

But now I really enjoy it.

]]> By: yankeesgameday http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/how-to-use-twitter-properly-to-enhance-your-baseball-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-123564 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:00:24 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48405#comment-123564 i agree withh you handsfour. Following along can be difficult. Personally, I like to follow the Yankee Media folks: the beat writers and see their comments during games, but for actual “conversations” about teams and games I use a third party program called Tweetdeck.

Here’s why Tweetdeck rocks (I’m sure others have their favorites, but this is the only one I know how to use being an unfrozen caveman lawyer).

Using the Yankees as an example, Tweetdeck allows you to open up as many columns as you want and choose which thread you want to see. You can assign a column for tracking conversation is this way: Anyone who puts a # sign infront of the word #yankees, or #nyy, or #questfor28 (which are all twitter based yankee channels) will have their tweet posted not only to their followers, but onto those open channels.

I have columns for all three AND a #redsox column to follow the enemy. There are #team columns for all the teams so when the Yanks play the Tigers tomorrow, I’ll also have a #tigers column up to talk smack with tiger fans.

Craig is absolutely right about Twitter. Not only does it help you if you are a blogger to reach an audience, but it really does enrich the game to some degree. If you’re like me and you yell at the screen when your team does something stupid, you can tweet about it and other people are probalby going to agree with you.

During Spring Training this year I got my very first Re-Tweet and it was like I just won a new car on the Price is Right. Someone thought my comment about Arod was so interesting they shared it with all their friends. Pretty much blew my mind.

Anyway, that’s my take on how to get some enjoyment and follow an actual throughline of a conversation on Twitter.

]]> By: handsfour http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/how-to-use-twitter-properly-to-enhance-your-baseball-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-123534 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:17:25 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48405#comment-123534 Since the Twitter feed does not thread posts/comments, everything just comes in an endless stream, and it seems difficult to piece together which are related and thus follow an actual conversation. And you may only be getting pieces of the conversation anyway, right? If I follow Craig and see this tweet: “@kevin_reiss Agreed. Great idea” – if I don’t follow Kevin, or even if I do, how am I supposed to know what they’re talking about, and why do I want bits and pieces of a conversation between Craig and Kevin in my feed?

Facebook, with its threading of posts and comments (and no stupid character limit that causes the language to be mangled), seems much better suited to conversation.

Or am I missing the point of it all?

(coming from a casual/intermittent Twitter user – somewhat grudgingly, for work)

]]> By: garlicfriesandbaseball http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/how-to-use-twitter-properly-to-enhance-your-baseball-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-123528 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:10:47 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48405#comment-123528 Old Hoss Radbourn is my favorite! Sometimes I have to read it twice to get his sarcasm, but no matter, it’s always good.

]]> By: Jonny 5 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/how-to-use-twitter-properly-to-enhance-your-baseball-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-123516 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:57:22 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48405#comment-123516 ” they misunderstand the point of it all.”

Amen. I guess I better read the link then….

]]> By: pmcenroe http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/how-to-use-twitter-properly-to-enhance-your-baseball-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-123515 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:55:00 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48405#comment-123515 lol he certainly did

]]> By: ThatGuy http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/how-to-use-twitter-properly-to-enhance-your-baseball-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-123507 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:49:40 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48405#comment-123507 Did Reusse tell anyone to get off his lawn?

]]> By: pmcenroe http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/how-to-use-twitter-properly-to-enhance-your-baseball-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-123483 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:21:38 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48405#comment-123483 I absolutely agree, at first I was hesitant to join but it has def. enhanced my baseball experience, perfect examples are Pat Neshek breaking the news of his own trade on twitter and the discussion this morning from Reusse’s anti-sabr column in the Strib today.

]]> By: ThatGuy http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/how-to-use-twitter-properly-to-enhance-your-baseball-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-123482 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:21:29 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48405#comment-123482 I would seriously love to know who is being the Old Hoss twitter account. It is quite hiliarious.

]]> By: yankeesfanlen http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/how-to-use-twitter-properly-to-enhance-your-baseball-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-123480 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:18:55 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48405#comment-123480 I wish Twitter would use something like amazon to help follow people- it tends to lead you down some garden path of Charlie Sheen or other non-entities.
And if you follow me, you’re on deadly path of destruction.

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