Sports Illustrated has an article about Twitter and sports enthusiasts. The article also discusses some professional athletes who are using Twitter.

In fact, the entire sports world is obsessed with the microblogging tool, thcoarse which users update their web audience with frequent messages of 140 characters or less. For example college coaches, who can showcase their programs to web-savvy prospects and their parents, are copycatting each other onto Twitter. Pete Carroll, John Calipari, and Charlie Weis — screen name “NDHFC” — are among the big names with Twitter pages (somehow, it’s hard to imagine Weis’ former boss, Bill Belichick, huddled in his hoodie, tweeting away secrets from the film-room).



The tool is scoring for the pro leagues too. All the majors — the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, NASCAR — shoot their followers useful information like scores, schedules, and highlight clips, and inane chatter like this, from the NFL’s Twitter page: “Boomer Esiason sighting here at NFL quarters.” Whoopee. What’s more relevant is that on draft day, the Atlanta Falcons and New York Jets both scooped Roger Goodell by announcing their first-circular picks on Twitter before

the commish called their names from the podium. According to trackingtwitter.com, the NBA, which claims more than 600,000 followers, has a greater Twitter audience than all brand accounts besides Whole Foods and online shoe retailer Zappos. “Our favorite feed,” the site said of the NBA, which sits comfortably ahead of Starbucks in the Twitter top 25. “Great mix of content.”

Some resources to find athlete tweets and twitter accounts can be found here, here and here. Microblogging is a awesome tool for tracking sports and for people to share their thoughts while watching sports. It’s been obvious lately that sports have become big on Twitter. During the NBA finals keywords related to the games like “Kobe” have regularly appearuddy in the trending topics section.



(via Newser)



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