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27 Feb 2009 |
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| In these days of email, social networks, and RSS feeds, fantasy owners have many ways of gaining information. Twitter is one of those great fantasy baseball networking sources that more and more people are starting to take advantage of. Don’t get left behind. Here is my primer to help you get started.
What is Twitter you ask? Twitter.com is a social networking service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. You can get access to twitter on your phone, as an add on to your web browser, or directly at Twitter.com. What can Twitter do for you? The key to twitter is to follow the right people. If you do you can get breaking news, keep up to date, get rapid response to questions, and find out trends or buzz. I love to get notified of some great blogs and stories that the people I follow have tweeted for others to see. Many bloggers are now posting links to their articles on twitter so their followers are aware a new blog entry or article is released. No more reading old news! How do you sign up? Go to twitter.com and sign up it is that easy! After you sign up, you need to start finding people to follow. Following is easy. All you need to do is go to a person profile page and select “follow”. They may choose to follow you back, they may not. There is no right or wrong. There are many people that follow me that I choose to not follow because they post about things I am not interested in. It is all up to you. How to do find people to follow? If you are looking for people to follow for fantasy baseball one of the easiest ways is to go to http://search.twitter.com/ and search “#roto”. Many tweets that pertain to roto baseball are tagged with #roto for search purposes. If you want your tweet about fantasy baseball to be found by others just add #roto to the end of you post too. Join the FP911 family! Many of us here at FantasyPros911.com are already on twitter and would be happy to have you follow us. Can you figure out who is who? @SeanRoto, @FP911, @rhettoldham, @Robertreed, @troypatterson to name a few. What I also occasionally do is check the people that are following others I like and look at their recent tweets to see if they interest me. Celebrate Follow Friday! Every Friday people on twitter suggest others that they think you may want to follow. I will help you all out by giving you a great starting list here: @therotofeed @JasonCollete, @baseballpro, @RotoTommy, @seniorcircuit, @crookedpitch, @faketeams, @fakebaseball, @TheRoundtable @StanHayes, @diamondcutter, @baseball_buzz @kerelcoop @theboysofsummer, @FBTM_Chris, @baseballdig, @FriedBasballATL, @sporer, @xxldaddyo, @bigjonwilliams How often do I need to check twitter? This is a personal preference similar to e-mail. Some people are addicted and need to access it all the time, others check once a day. Many people have apps on their phone that monitor twitter while on the go. Personally, my iPhone app of choice is Tweetie, but there are many others available. Another way to monitor incoming tweets without being always on the twitter home page is to use a Firefox add-on such as twitfox or friendbar. Again it's up to you. Here is a wiki that might give you some other suggestions: http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Apps. In conclusion, joining the conversation with Twitter is just another tool in your arsenal of information to help you with your fantasy teams. It is not for everyone due to personal preferences, but if you are one of those that can never get enough, then I am sure you will enjoy it. Get started today by adding me @seanroto and the other guys in the FP911 family.
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  written by ducat2, March 08, 2009
Sean,
Thanks. I signed up for twitter some time ago but did not know its use. Coincidentally, I just started receiving e-mails from people that were following my twitter activity, which up to this point was none. Your article clarifies its use and has opened up a great way to receive current news and info on my phone. I blame you for any future addiction that may occur. Again, thanks.
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