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.