Comments on: Twitter: A Perfect Match for Tennis Fans http://www.onthebaseline.com/2010/03/18/twitter-a-perfect-match-for-tennis-fans/ Women's Professional Tennis News, Results, and Commentary Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:59:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: The Fan Child http://www.onthebaseline.com/2010/03/18/twitter-a-perfect-match-for-tennis-fans/comment-page-1/#comment-61206 The Fan Child Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:51:13 +0000 http://www.onthebaseline.com/?p=10038#comment-61206 I for one would not want to see players PR reps doing the twittering. The beauty of Twitter (to me) is that followers get a rare look into the players when they are just being themselves and tooling around on the computer. I'd hate to see that spontaneity and intimacay be replaced by something more rigid and filtered. I for one would not want to see players PR reps doing the twittering. The beauty of Twitter (to me) is that followers get a rare look into the players when they are just being themselves and tooling around on the computer. I’d hate to see that spontaneity and intimacay be replaced by something more rigid and filtered.

]]> By: Andrew Broad http://www.onthebaseline.com/2010/03/18/twitter-a-perfect-match-for-tennis-fans/comment-page-1/#comment-61148 Andrew Broad Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:26 +0000 http://www.onthebaseline.com/?p=10038#comment-61148 It was pretty surreal to read the transcript of Caro's fourth-round Indian Wells press-conference and see that she was asked when she was going to update her Facebook and Twitter pages! That's the type of question that is usually asked by fans, not media. In ten years' time, Twitter and Facebook will be populated only by diehards talking to themselves, as everyone else will have moved onto the next model of social networking. Except, of course, for diehards such as myself who eschew social networking in favour of good old traditional Internet fora. It was pretty surreal to read the transcript of Caro’s fourth-round Indian Wells press-conference and see that she was asked when she was going to update her Facebook and Twitter pages! That’s the type of question that is usually asked by fans, not media.

In ten years’ time, Twitter and Facebook will be populated only by diehards talking to themselves, as everyone else will have moved onto the next model of social networking.

Except, of course, for diehards such as myself who eschew social networking in favour of good old traditional Internet fora.

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