The Big Tweet
Unless you’ve been living in your 1977 Ford Econline Van, you’ve probably heard of Twitter but if you’re like me, you didn’t jump on the twitter wagon right away. I signed up over a year ago and stopped using it after 3 days. The only people that would follow by tweets were amateur porn stars who wanted me to check out their “NEW PICS.” So I ignored it for a year until the tipping point for the site happened, it gained genuine star power with actors and athletes signing up and tweeting about their lives in a way fans have never seen before. I have to admit I would hang on Shaq’s(@The_Real_Shaq) every tweet and while I’m not a fan of Chad OchoCinco(@OGOchoCinco), I find it fascinating to read the up to the minute goings on in his life. In fact, this week he responded to some Skip Bayless criticism via the Twitter website. The first two are directed at Super Agent Drew Rosenhaus and the final one is at Bayless himself.
@RosenhausSports Drew @skipbayless is hating again to hate that much he must still be a virgin Drew somebody has to help him release da hate
@RosenhausSports okay I’ll go on about my day then, but damn him and Hugh Heffner need to switch places for a month, then he’d be fine!!!
@RealSkipBayless How the fu#% did you even get a job, whoever hired you gets a short bus child pleeze without the helmet!!! Paid 2 be dumb!
Fantastic stuff but I’m sure you as a sports bettor are thinking how is this going to help me win my bets? Two words “Breaking News” the Twitter search function is real time so the moment someone using twitter posts a tweet about a player’s injury or a pitching change the search picks it up real time. Say you wanted to place a bet on the Cardinals, punch Cardinals into the Twitter Search and you’ll find out all the information other Cards fans are tweeting about. At the MLB trade deadline, I learned about trades faster than they were reported on ESPN or SI.com. Set up and account and follow your favorite athletes, it will grow on you but if you want to tweet about your latest trip to the loo… just don’t do it.
Here are a few of my favorites
- Chad OchoCinco (@OGOchoCinco)
- Adam Pacman Jones (@RealPacmanjones)
- Shaq (@The_Real_Shaq)
- Bill Simmons ESPN (@sportsguy33)
- Rampage Jackson (@Rampage4real)
- John Daily (@PGA_JohnDaly)
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We have a list of over 400 Professional Athletes who use Twitter on our Facebook page.
I want to see a tweet come from Shaq in a middle of one of his games
….”now i’m going to hit my free throw”
Shaq isn’t a Liar, I think it will be Chad OchoCIno who tweets from the endzone. He’ll likely have one of his boyz do it for him. “I’m in the endzone about to spike the ball, ride a reindeer and propose to a cheerleader”