For blog post #9 we were assigned to tweet a live event. I chose the men’s basketball game against Black Hills State University. I thought this would be a good opportunity to tweet because I intern for Athletics Media Relations and I am able to receive the stat updates and get front-row seats to the game.
I really enjoyed this experience. I have live tweeted for my internship a few times, so this wasn’t my first experience with live tweeting, but I enjoy it every time. I enjoyed being able to get information out immediately. I know how much I rely on Twitter for sports updates or for any news updates. It was nice being able to practice live tweeting for the future. The only part I didn’t enjoy was the fast-paced action of the tweeting. Basketball is a really fast game, so trying to tweet specific plays is hard because I just couldn’t keep up. I know this is part can never be fixed or probably will never get easier, but I still didn’t enjoy it!
As I said before, I have tweeted live previously so I knew how difficult it can be while tweeting for sporting events. I have only tweeted for football and wrestling, and I found out basketball was a lot harder. The fast-paced game is hard to keep up with and trying to keep stats while tweeting was even harder. I can see how journalist using Twitter was an extreme learning experience to begin with. I was surprised by how difficult it was. I figured because I had done it before, i wouldn’t be too hard of an assignment, but I was wrong. I didn’t find it overly difficult, but I was surprised by the level of difficulty. If I could do anything differently I probably would have tried to take better pictures. Because of where I was sitting on press row my shot was blocked by the two men doing radio in front of me. I could have gotten some good shots of BHSU’s team, but I felt like that was innapropriate for my tweets. I would also try to space out my tweets better. There are a lot of opportunities available to tweet during a basketball game and I wish I would have organized it better.
I love social media and I love to learn about the applications of social media. I thought the speaker from the Denver Post we had today was really interesting because I love to learn about how businesses and newspapers are using social media. I don’t think it’s going anywhere anytime soon and if I was to stay in the field, I would definitely want to go in this direction. Before I decided I wanted to go to law school I had originally planned on going this route in journalism, now I just like to learn about it.
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