Basketball Bloggers have gone Twitter Crazy…Here’s proof

March 19, 2009 – Dr. Anklesnap

I’m not sure if The Hoop Doctors readers have noticed, but the social media program “Twitter” is starting to gain some steam. I mean people have gone twitter crazy, right? For those of you who haven’t heard of the program, Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 bytes in length. Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them.

We all know sports bloggers are pretty early adopters of social media programs and technology. Well for those of you who follow basketball blogs, this may be even more apparent as a good percentage of them have had a “Follow me on Twitter” button somewhere on their blogs for quite some time now. But it’s not just the bloggers anymore, it’s players such as Shaq making news for his ‘tweets’, and most recently Charlie Villanueva for using twitter during halftime of an NBA game that has gotten bloggers, mainstream media, players, coaches, and agents to all take notice. Some of which are even joining twitter themselves.

I’m sort of the social media representative of The Hoop Doctors you could say (seeing as how none of the other Docs spend much time on anything besides facebook). So if you want to check out what i’m up to on twitter you can follow me @anklesnap on Twitter. You can also often find me on digg as anklesnap.

Oh yeah the title of this post does say we have proof of the Twitter ‘mania’ that has taken over the basketball blogosphere right? So here it is, the following is a list of links to the Twitter profiles of several basketball bloggers that we are following right now. We are also following a lot of other great Sports Bloggers that talk about all the sports, so if you want to follow them too, check out my list of who i’m following. If we missed a basketball blogger we should be following, please send us a link (admin@thehoopdoctors.com) to their profile and i’ll start following them and add their profile link to this list…..Start Tweeting People!

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Comments

23 Responses to “Basketball Bloggers have gone Twitter Crazy…Here’s proof”

suga shane on March 19th, 2009 2:31 pm

we are all on it. 24/7

twitter.com/suga_shane

madbuckets.blogspot.com
Sheed on March 19th, 2009 2:40 pm

Good work on the list!
Dr. Anklesnap on March 19th, 2009 5:43 pm

Gotcha Shane….i’m followin’ you….look out…haha
Zach Harper on March 19th, 2009 6:15 pm

Good stuff, Dr. That’s a fine list.
Ryan on March 19th, 2009 11:21 pm

What? No Hoops Addict?

http://twitter.com/hoopsaddict

Sniffle… Sniffle…
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hoopinion on March 20th, 2009 12:06 pm

Great work on the list. Thank you.

Hawks bloggers…

twitter.com/hoopinion
twitter.com/peachtreehoops
twitter.com/hawkstr8talk
Dr. Anklesnap on March 20th, 2009 1:48 pm

Ryan – my bad dawg. I didn’t know you were on twitter….following and added you to the list….

Hoopinion – thanks for the links man. I added all three to the list.

Let’s get our ‘twit’ on…..
Mr. Thell on March 20th, 2009 2:16 pm

Proud to be on the list, and adding you now.
Ethan Jaynes on March 20th, 2009 5:08 pm

I would like to think of myself as an honorary NBA blogger. That is my main focus
http://Twitter.com/EthanJaynes

Cool post AnkleSnap
Raps Fan on March 25th, 2009 7:53 pm

http://twitter.com/rapsfan
InsideHoops.com on March 26th, 2009 1:11 pm

http://twitter.com/insidehoops

InsideHoops.com is one of the world’s largest sports websites, with professional pro basketball reporters and a regular readership of over 200,000 basketball fans
Jetlag - A Survival Kit for the travelling NBA Fan « on March 30th, 2009 10:50 am

[...] who have taken over the “Twitterverse” (Some good lists of people to follow: List 1 List 2 List [...]
Youth Basketball on April 30th, 2009 11:25 am

Can I get some love in the insight world of basketball?

twitter.com/youthbasketball

to plagiarize off of hoopsaddict…”sniffle…sniffle”
Jakob Kagel on May 9th, 2009 11:43 am

College Basketball 24/7 is on Twitter too

http://www.twitter.com/collegebb247
Alex on May 16th, 2009 9:28 pm

Time add your buddy, no?? lol. http://twitter.com/NBAtipoff
Shawn K on May 16th, 2009 9:30 pm

You forgot everybody from http://www.projectspurs.com

@mdeleon
@thattalldude
@sa2ny2004
Carolyn Hastings on May 19th, 2009 11:29 am

Great post – thanks for the mention. Heading to the Q tomorrow night for Round Three, Game 1. Wish us luck. –C
hi on May 22nd, 2009 6:22 am

Is this list actually being updated? It needs to have @InsideHoops added
Chris Denker on June 30th, 2009 12:56 am

Good stuff man!
Dan on August 15th, 2009 11:32 am

You might want to add twitter.com/thebbblogger.
Dannie on September 9th, 2009 6:24 pm

We cover the Sixers and have our 30 team NBA preview underway.
http://twitter.com/reclinergm
Al on October 7th, 2009 8:19 am

You also forgot
http://twitter.com/Ameritech_Bball