Game Time Tweeting

I recently stumbled upon an article that discusses how athletes use twitter during sporting events. Major League Baseball has no official guidelines to the use of twitter, but urges players from using it thirty minutes before the start of a game. These sporting organizations are putting policy against posting tweets during games because they want to protect broadcast right holders from fans who follow twitter from getting to close to play-by-play. Another issue that was brought up was professional players posting tweets about disgruntle fans and calling them names. One example was a player from the Washington Redskins called fans “dimwits” and had to apologize before closing down his twitter account permanently. This article is titled “U.S. Pro Sports League Ban Game-Time Tweeting” and is published in PC Magazine Online.

Facebooking

I found an interesting article that explains the impact of social networks for sports at the collegiate level. Recently the use of social networks, like facebook, myspace, and twitter by NCAA athletes have been under increase scrutiny. The article also talks about how different schools handle this situation, by either monitor these collegiate athletes facebooks closely, or just enforce a full ban on all social network sites, while that student is an athlete at that school. This article not only mentions the negative aspect of social networks, but also some positive aspects. One major positive aspect is that makes it easy to meet people/teammates and know what they are like, before one actually meets somebody.

LINK to Article