Rangers broadcasts and Twitter

What secret organization decided to push Twitter onto us. The news, late night talk shows, now even sports.. can’t get away from it.

Its not nearly significant enough to deserve all this attention. And things like the rangers organization having a twitter feed is against the purpose of the website in the first place, much like all those tv shows and such that had “myspace” pages.

“Hate” is a strong word. I hate people that argue with the checkout person whether a can of soup was on sale or not. I hate people that merge in front me just to turn a second later. I hate people that aren’t like me. Twitter? Not so much.

used it for 5 minutes before realizing there was really no point to it.

Not sure why anyone, especially people who are active on blogs, would be vehemently against a media outlet reaching out to its audience for feedback and interaction.

and the media write breathless reports about how it changes society forever. Yawn. It will find its niche of usefulness. The cellphone, computer, and internet (all of which are closely related these days as the boundaries evaporate) changed society. Twitter seems incremental to me, not game changing. Kindle, Twitter, the iphone, whatever. It’s not like someone cured cancer or found a way to travel by transportation a la Star Trek.

This all fits into my occasional old-man rants on how there are entirely too many people reporting the news on tv, radio, internet, etc. All of them searching for the latest hot topic to talk about and stay current and trendy. It just seems like so much noise much of the time.

I’ll be 40 at the end of the month, so I’m at about the AA level for cantankerousness old-manisms. If anyone ever actually gets on my lawn that wasn’t hired to be there, watch out.

television rant. I laughed.

but the constant mentions drive me insane. I mostly use it for a few friends (Rachel, Micah) and I follow other people (Josh Lewin, our own FuturePants, Tim Cowlishaw, Ben and Skin).

I like being able to have conversations with my friends while I’m out and about or at the game.

I don’t follow the FSSW twitter – I would if they had sport-specific accounts. I just don’t care about pretty much any sport other than baseball. I’m also on the fence with Ben and Skin – they tweet a LOT, about freakin EVERYTHING. I do enjoy CJ Wilson and Jason Grilli, though.

I actually just set my twitter icon to the “TAG DON’T TWEET” graphic that showed up a few GDTs ago, just to see if the world explodes.

I dont use it, but its a much better concept than the other social networking sites imo and has more redeeming qualities as far as news and such goes

but for the love of god i dont need it shoved in my face every 5minutes during the broadcast

Pfftft.

Only because “Dear Lord, please make it stop” wasn’t an option…

it’s easy – easier than calling everyone and seeing what they are doing (especially if what they are doing is nothing)

it’s interesting – would not have realized that i needed to contact person xyz unless i knew in advance what had happened (if something)

there is a lot of surprise entertainment, too.

@seesamplay

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And I absolutely hate the FSSW Twitter talk, all game, all the time. This is for several reasons:

1) Their nightly questions are fucking retarded. I think we can all agree with that, Twitter user or not.

2) The FSSW Twitter feed lags very far behind live. How hard is it for an intern to send “Middle of 5, Rangers still up by 2!” when it actually happens, instead of at the top of 7?

3) Ric Renner Tweets sometimes on the FSSW feed.

4) Ric Renner signs his tweets as “RicRen.”

5) Somehow I think this encourages Jim Knox segments. As the Ticket said the other day, “The five finest words in the english language are ‘We go to Jim Knox!’”*

*Sarcasm

…in a tweet on May 31st:

http://twitter.com/scottrlucas/status/1983672331

Also, the fourth choice in the poll is the best by far. Now, please excuse me while I listen to my victrola.

Microblogging is here to stay, but it should be part of something and not a stand alone.

a twit?

I do follow all the ladies from here and FuturePants as well, and it is fun to banter back and forth a bit, especially during games. And none of it turns into a pissing contest, though that may be because we don’t have enough characters to do it. :)

The FSSW twitter annoys me because I don’t care about the Mavs or Stars. I wish you could filter it for Rangers only content. I do follow Josh Lewin’s stuff, because I like goofy things, but that’s just me. I can see how he doesn’t appeal to everyone, though I do think some people here are too hard on the guy.

I do think they probably mention it too much, but that doesn’t make Twitter itself a bad thing. It just means that some people like the good folks at FSN don’t know when to stop beating things into the ground.

Then you would have a Facebook update of a blog post with a photo of a reporter taking a photo with his cell phone of his laptop showing a Twitter update.

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what Twitter is. I probably should have someone explain it to me

because it helped me catch someone who stole content from my website. They twittered a link to an article on their website which sounded suspiciously like something I had posted on mine four days earlier. Lo and behold, it was my blog verbatim. I get paid to run that site, so I don’t take kindly to people stealing from my livelihood. Needless to say, they took it down after I accused them of theft. No way I would have found that article w/o Twitter.