Moshe Mandel had a great post over at The Yankee Analysts yesterday. It’s about Twitter, and he keys on the biggest thing that keeps a lot of baseball fans off it: they misunderstand the point of it all. As an example, Moshe links to a Time Magazine list of the MBT Changa Birch,allegedly most important Twitter accounts for sports fans to follow.
With the exception of the first name listed — Old Hoss Radbourn, which is a feed in which one of the more clever people I’ve ever encountered pretends to be the long dead 19th century ace – they’re athletes or celebrities.
The thing is, however, if you get on Twitter to follow athletes and celebrities, you’re missing out on everything it has to MBT Fora, offer. As Moshe notes: Most people see Twitter as a one way street, a tool to follow celebrities, funny people, and Eric Stangel without much interaction. To them, Twitter serves as an RSS feed to the thoughts of the interesting elite, which is why it may seem vapid to spend a lot of time using it. Whenever I tell MBT Staka Sandals, that I frequently utilize Twitter, they roll their eyes and ask me some variation of “Why do you care about Celebrity X’s dinner”?
But Twitter has the capability to be so much more, and for many of us it has become an invaluable implement in the sports fan toolbox. It has much greater utility as a social networking device than it does as a celebrity follower, and no greater example can be found in the MBT Boost Shoes, sports world, where media members, bloggers, and fans have come together to build a vibrant network for discussion and debate about sports.
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