Twitter

Sparks

Some of you have no doubt heard about Twitter. For those who haven't, well, it's sort of like SMS texting only for a website. It's optimally suited for notifications of things; you get these 140-character messages quickly sent out from your account to whomever is following your account, and services are available to feed those messages into your account from email or your mobile phone or your website or your blog or any one of a dozen different sources; and messages you receive through it can be routed equally well.

For example, last night they launched the Discovery space shuttle, and I was getting SMS texts of messages sent by NASA and by a professional astronomer (Phil Plait of BadAstronomy.com), as it launched. Everything from the initial problems to the bat perched on the side of the fuel tank to the launch itself to the various stages in the launch to the first pictures coming in of the launch, all before the first report ever hit the media. And right now, I'm getting details from them as the shuttle closes in to dock with the ISS (estimated to happen at 21:12 our time).

Now this isn't the space shuttle forum

But myself and Kevin Kilty (the ICPSA performance director) and a few others (like the International Olympic Council and the Olympic Council of Ireland) all think that this is potentially a very useful tool for our sport.

So here are a few links that might be of use:

• The NTSA's Twitter feed (fed with articles from the NTSA website and general news during events)
• The ICPSA's Twitter feed (fed with articles from the ICPSA wesite and general news during events)
• WTSC's Twitter feed (fed with articles from the ICPSA wesite and general news during events)
• The OCI's Twitter feed (fed with comments and general news)
• Shooting UK's Twitter feed (fed with alerts to breaking news and teasers to articles)
• Boards.ie's Twitter feed (fed with status updates on boards and so forth)

jwshooter

i thought ya be taller

Sandy22

I think it would be better if Wilkinstown reported on airgun stuff, an area where they obviously have considerable expertise.

Sparks

So Wilkinstown should be the new NGB for airgun shooting then Sandy?

Sparks

This "twitter thing" by the way, has really taken off - those are the signup graphs. 13,000 Irish people signed up in January, total number of Irish people now somewhere above 20,000 people. And that's just those who bother to sign up as Irish, the actual number is probably a fair bit higher.