Twitter Me This

if I tweet… and you tweet also… does that mean we tweeted together? :swoon:

OH SHIT YOU’RE BETROTHED NOW.

Um, disregard.

Only if it’s a 1-2 year deal. He can still play SS and Might be able to make the adjustment to playing 3rd base, at least as a backup plan. By the way i do use Twitter through Facebook, but I use it for my band, Corduroy Jim. It’s neat, although I have not gone bananas over it. Go A’s!

I get too much email as it is… But if I can figure out how to manage it I may just break down and sign up

Great sources for late breaking fantasy news for baseball and football. Very helpful on Sunday mornings.

Glad to see Jeff Erickson made the list, he is a great dude.

@BrettAndersen49

…the more useful to you Twitter becomes. And so Twitter gets a disproportionate amount of hype, because famous people are by definition better able to hype.

It’s great for 1-to-many communication. It’s great for 1-to-1 communication between famous people, because they can let non-famous people feel like they’re eavesdropping on inside conversations, while they still ignore the non-famous people—they can be followed but not follow in return. It’s great for keeping track of what’s going on right this very second, which is important for people who live in the media. All reasons that famous people love this thing.

For the non-famous, though, it’s flawed. It’s bad for nuance. It’s bad as a historical record, for archiving any information that is not of the moment. It’s bad if you don’t diligently filter who you follow, as you can easily end up reading a lot of information that’s useless to you. There’s a chicken-and-egg problem if you’re not famous, as it’s hard to have good conversations without a lot of followers. If you just want to communicate with other non-famous friends, Facebook is a far more powerful tool.

Since my previous life as a baseball blogger gave me perhaps .0001 of a Warhol of fame, Twitter is somewhat useful to me. I spew my baseball opinions on there (@kenarneson) and I have some more famous and respected baseball people who follow me, and that can lead to some interesting conversations. But I pretty much limit my tweeting to baseball…if I want to talk about my personal life, I leave that to Facebook, where I can better limit who gets to see that more intimate information.

is that it’s got that dumbass character limit, further entrenching the awful “texting” method of spelling into the world today.

It’s one thing to do it as a joke. It’s another thing to start having this shit become normal and accepted.

Writing actual paper letters to people who preferred to read information in hard copy. 1950 needs to meet 2010.

FWIW, I set up a Twitter a couple months ago, used it once, and haven’t touched it since. But, as a “breaking news” tool, I am beginning to see it’s value. I don’t think I’ll ever tweet regularly though — too much effort.

@CraigBreslow

A list of all the verified accounts of MLB players: http://twitter.mlblogs.com/

Please bring Miggy back!
Sincerely,
catfishuntersthompson

was this because of Cust or is it a trade/signing coming???

It was Tejada’s agent who hit up the A’s, and not the other way around – according to the updated Slusser post. So probably no Miggy.

@Baseballgirl has already been taken/stolen by someone in Texas.

http://twitter.com/BrettAnderson49

not sure if its legit, but yeah.

I never thought he wanted to leave! I would love to have him back!!!

WHY HAVEN’T YOU TWETERREED THIS BBG?!?!?

is back as a NRI

Two examples below:

All this talk about “knowing how to win.” I knew how to win. I didn’t give up runs and I struck people out. Then my arm fell off.
Funny thing, those wins. I had 59 of ‘em in ’84. Didn’t care. “Made-up stat,” I said. “What’s my WAR?” Of course, I had an opium “problem.”
 
And @KenTremendous is on there, too.

He is a pitcher in the A’s organization who went to Harvard, and he has an awesome blog by the same name as his account that he links to.
Even if your not a Twitter user, his blog is a good read:

http://shawnhaviland.blogspot.com/

Now if AN came out as a weekly newspaper and I could fetch it every Friday from the mail box. And we all wrote in to post our comments.

we really are the Generation with the least amount to actually SAY.

Which is a huge: why? Maybe to appease Scott? If we care about Scott so much then you have to figure either Sweeney or Davis are goners.

@CSNAthletics
@JPosnanski
@joe_sheehan
@MLB (duh)
@keithlaw
@mlbtraderumors
@injuryexpert
@rivercats
@BtB_Sky
@RaysJoeMaddon
@brodiebrazilCSN
@KenTremendous
@JeffFletcherAOL
@king_kaufman

I highly recommend you follow the @TicketServices feed. They are really on top of it.

I don’t Twitter but if I did that would be on my list. Where else can you bask in the awesomeness of quotes like -

“Universe is 14 billion years old. Seems silly to celebrate one year. Be like having a fucking parade every time i take a piss.”

“Pressure? Get married when you want. Your wedding’s just one more day in my life I can’t wear sweat pants.”