MLB Trade Rumors On Twitter

Is MLB Trade Rumors on Myspace?

Twitter is a pretty good place to 1) boost traffic to your blog if you post the links in your 'tweets,' and 2) keep up to date with other journalists/baseball people that update twitter with links to their blogs, columns, etc.

Tim, RE: Facebook... have you heard about their new Terms of Service? Basically they take an unrestricted worldwide license (with rights to sublicense) for EVERYTHING you post/upload. Just a friendly heads-up.

http://consumerist.com/5150175/facebooks-new-terms-of-service-we-can-do-anything-we-want-with-your-content

As for Twitter: a lot of your updates could be summarized pretty well in 140 characters, so I guess you could make posts there - maybe a truncated version and a tinyurl link to the related article, and then have a more detailed version on the website?

Or better yet, have a short version on Twitter with a link that sends the reader straight to a more detailed version here on the site. That way if there people could click through for more if they wanted, or just take the "Lite" version.

Just on the topic of twitter, Justin Morneau, or at least his official site, follows me on Twitter.

Tim, here's my desire: leave MLBTR for your main work, and use Twitter to post your more informal, personal thoughts about your work.

You maintain an excellent neutral disposition here, and I'd be interested in hearing what you really think more often! Twitter could be a great place to do that.

I come here several times a day to find what you have dug up. If you merely post headlines of what's here, I won't follow you.

But if you do something else unique on Twitter that piques my interest, I'll eagerly follow you. I'm following you now, and will look forward to seeing how you use it.

who here thinks tht the rays r vastly underrated and the fact tht all the yankees did wit sabathia is replace mussina and burnett was severly overpriced and texiera was their best signin even though it wasnt a necessary one and the yankees wont make the playoffs?

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who here thinks tht the rays r vastly underrated and the fact tht all the yankees did wit sabathia is replace mussina and burnett was severly overpriced and texiera was their best signin even though it wasnt a necessary one and the yankees wont make the playoffs?

Posted by: marc | February 17, 2009 at 09:38 PM
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Marc Southworth? The WBL Rays fan Southworth?!

according to wikipedia.com Twitter is..
"Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging 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."
there is alot more information on wikipedia..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

im just looking up about it now, but i guess as its text used it works using the text on your cell phone? i guess its like a test message but instead of being sent to just the one person its sent to everyone on your twitter list all at the same time? you then can get that information right away using your cell phone where as a website you have to check on your own time for new information posted?

as for having it through this website, i assume you have to have MLBTR on your twitter list? and those who dont wont be able to get that information?
if one puts new information on twitter that information would not be on the site? so if one uses twitter for new information about baseball related information would it be better to just put the basic information on twitter but the more in detailed information on the actual website? then people can know right away there would be baseball information posted but have to actually check the website to see what it is?