Twitter and Tweeting.... something new for me. It seems that everyone in the world is now using Twitter as a way to sent short messages on what's going on. We've seen Tweets from Iran, Iraq, CNN, FoxNews, ABC, CBS, NBC, Little League... like I said... everyone is using it, so I figured I should try it out too. But as I said, this is something new for me.
I started out by creating an account (www.twitter.com/activetom) and even made my own background. So far, so good. I then posted a few "Tweets" over a few weeks and thought... ok, I can do this... no problem. And then I decided to Tweet during the game last night between Illinois and Indiana and learned this is not as easy as it looks.
Trying to update the game inning by inning and being limited to only 140 charachters was really hard for me. Not only do I tend to run on with words here in the blog, but to now limit me to 140 charachters... tough job! I never knew you could abreveted so many words and I'm sure a lot of them won't make sense to the typical reader. Oh, they made sense to me but what about to you? I guess I'll just have to leave that up in the air for now and let you decide.
Another issue I had was with the wireless Internet access we have here in the press box. Everything was going fine until about the 4th inning when the access became erratic. I had to use Notepad to try and keep up with the game and then "copy and paste" the text into Twitter. Of course then I was over the 140 charachters and had to try and reduce everything down. I'm sure I missed some things but overall, it went pretty well.
Today I will be attempting to use my Blackberry to post Tweets during the Nebraska vs N/S Dakota game. I'm also volunteering here again this year as a "Team Host" and Nebraska is my team. I'll write a post on that later. But I'll be in the dugout with the team so we'll see if I'm able to post the Tweets. I tried yesterday a couple of times but Twitter was having Blackberry server issues that I hope have been cleared up.
II hope you'll "Follow" me at www.twitter.com/activetom!
