Sports Journalism and the Use of Twitter Debate
BY: CHRIS HOGAN
When Twitter launched in the summer of 2006, many people were still reading newspapers and blogs or watching ESPN for the latest sports news. Forward five years later, most sports journalists have turned to Twitter in order to break sports news faster than any other way of communication. This has seen a major growth in the use of people using twitter to follow their favorite sports writers and their tweets to gain news quicker.
Most breaking sports news is now reported by the journalist’s tweets they can share with the fans. The best part of that is that the followers can re-tweet what that journalist said and spread it so that other people can view it as well. Sports fans can also send a reply to their favorite writers and can ask them a question about a certain player or rumor or comment on their work rather than the old fashion way of emailing them or calling them. Moreover, it entails the capability of most smart phones that now carry twitter apps for easy download that makes it a lot easier to get the tweets about sports news when you are on the run or not near a computer. The Blackberry has the twitter apps entitled UberSocial or Twitter for Blackberry that allows you to get texts sent to your phone when you one of your favorite sports writers tweets something. Twitter is also great for sports fans because it allows them to get articles written by that journalist faster since they can post a link to it in a tweet.
It goes to show that Twitter will help out the sports world in the near future because it is free to use and it offers a great form of communication with the writers you want to connect with. Sports journalism is grateful to be able to benefit from a great social media site like this.
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