Good Twitter to follow?

Lord, I hope not.

 

So far, the only useful application of Twitter to baseball that I've seen is when you're at a tournament and you need updates about weather, schedule changes, playoff results, etc. 

 

The chief use of Twitter, in baseball and otherwise, seems to be to burden the rest of the world with people's most inane and self-indulgent thoughts.  I can see why narcissists send tweets.  I have yet to figure out why anyone voluntarily opts to receive them.

@maxpreps

@usabaseball

@perfectgameusa

@rivals

LOL

 

True, but you could say that about Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Snapchat, Linked In, and some you've probably never heard of (though your players have).  Not to mention blogs.  Worse yet, the comments section of any online news outlet.  Or heck, just the internet in general.

Lol, I'm with you Midlo.  But I need to get started on Twitter for work reasons, and I thought a more fun way to practice/get initiated was to follow a little baseball.  And JCG, I pretty much feel the same way about fbook, LinkedIn, etc.

I love..

 

1 pitch warrior

jaeger sports

I use Twitter to follow news columnists and receive links to their columns. I suppose you could follow college baseball the same way following the right sources.

I try to be picky on who or what I follow on twitter.  I follow

 

@d1baseball---great for updates, but can be a bit much during the weekends when you get a ton of updates.

 

@PBRMissouri--high school recruiting stuff, may unfollow since my son is in college now. They may have a feed for your state

 

Two feeds for my sons program, one done by the coach, and another done by the team which gives game day updates, sometimes inning by inning.

 

I used to follow perfect game, but to be honest, it got to be too much hearing about kids I never heard of before, and will never see play.  No offense PGStaff.

I used to feel like Midlo, but guess I must be a narcissist.  I have picked up a lot of information following twitter.  I don't tweet a lot and hardly anything I do tweet is pretty much useless.  I started last summer I think.  I have no idea what I'm doing but have about 2400 followers.  I know our pg twitter account has a lot of followers maybe over 20,000 or more.  I actually think it is great!  Not so great for a few of the stupid kids that don't understand how many decision makers might be reading their tweets.

 

If you like to be bored feel free to follow @PGJerry. Be interesting how many followers I pick up from that. 

PG, I bet you have so many followers b/c you are seen as an expert in the field of baseball recruiting, and your followers are hoping to gain some insights via your tweets.

STEVE SPRINGER

Thanks, but I try to stay away from that on twitter. That is what this site is for and I'm just one of many experienced people here.

ah, but your followers may not realize that that is your take on Twitter.

I finally turned my twitter account off to my phone....between the tweets, and retweets, my phone was buzzing constantly.  I'm too old for that.  (But I can still check tweets online at my leasure.)  I don't think I have ever tweeted anything.  

 

VARHP, since you are from VA-----

 

Besides the ones mentioned, I like to keep up with the local HS scores during baseball season, and @EricKolenichRTD is one of the best to follow (sports writer for the Richmond Times Dispatch).  If you are not from RVA, check your local paper for the sports writer's twitter acct.

 

On a Virginia level, @hankkurzjr is the Virginia Associated Press sports writer, covering college sports, NASCAR, etc...

 

@MLBDraft is a good one in June.

I follow Jason Parks from BP @professorparks. Beware, if you are easily offended don't follow him. Also I follow Steve Murray @SteveMurry44. Head Coach for Neosho Community College.

Not too much amateur baseball talk out of me on Twitter, but if you want to follow @josh_herz, there ya go. 

Hi,

I started using Twitter for professional reasons but soon became overwhelmed with the number of incoming tweets.  I found a social media manager... called HootSuite.

It allows you to enter different categories of keywords.  Then the tweets related to that category are in one list.  You can have multiple categories with multiple streams.It will also let you have a Facebook stream, LinkedIn stream etc.

I have only used it on the computer but I think they have an app for cell phone too.

Makes it much more manageable.