Twitter

Mitch Connor

Who else has become addicted to Twitter over the last couple of months?

I signed up to it last year, but since the end of the last footie season it has become a mainstay of my browsing habbits.

I think it is an absolutely excellent resource for keeping up with the latest football news, from all over the world. The speed at which journo's add news to it is incredable, and they are more free with tidbits, rumours and personal opinion.

Also a neat way of chatting with people online, in brief 140char segments.

Always find it amusing when I get a #ff mention too (the 2/3 times I have gotten one)

Paleface

I joined about two years ago just to see what it was all about. I didn't really see the point of it though and couldn't see myself using it so quickly forgot about it again.

However with the whole Cesc-Barca saga over the summer I quickly became addicted to it as it literally is where news breaks first these days.

I never tweet myself but I follow all the time now.

Oh and for anyone that wants a laugh follow TheBig_Sam!

super_furry

The whole Liverpool sale saga finally convinced me that twitter might actually have a use. Was very good for keeping up to date.

Mitch Connor

Paleface wrote: »

I joined about two years ago just to see what it was all about. I didn't really see the point of it though and couldn't see myself using it so quickly forgot about it again.

However with the whole Cesc-Barca saga over the summer I quickly became addicted to it as it literally is where news breaks first these days.

I never tweet myself but I follow all the time now.

i've 621 tweets.... only time i've looked to provide info was when i went to the two United reserve games in the summer. Rest of the tweets have been questions or discussing stuff with other on it.

jaykay74

Hardly ever post but look at it regularly enough. Very handy for breaking news.

homerjay2005

its the way news is reported now and it really is massive. i have an account, but only may check it 5 or 6 times a week or when people post something has been said or there is a major incident.


good for following matches on the mobile if not watching them, the updates would come alot quicker than sites like bbc or sky and are more to the point (though i love bbc match tracker)

angel01

Bit of an addict to it but it is a great tool and prefer it to forums now

Jax Teller

its very handy alright , remember reading joe cole and ballack were leaving chelsea the day before it was offically announced . I follow rio and darren bent on it any other good footballers on it ?

abouttobebanned

Collymore seems to think he has all the exclusive breaking stories. He did break the Rooney one on Saturday alright. But a pet peeve of mine is saying that something is definitely going to happen when you really have no way of knowing. He said Rooney WILL sign for man city.

I follow all the man utd journos but they can get a bit repetitive...you get sick of everything being looked at through red tinted glasses and my god these people are truly nerds of the game.

In life, they say you should never meet your heroes, you'll only be disappointed. Although I have no Heros on twitter some people really are better off knowing how boring they are. Rio Ferdinand is a tremendously boring and deluded man. No substance to him whatsoever. I'd go on about other celebs but this is a soccer thread.

Mitch Connor

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Collymore seems to think he has all the exclusive breaking stories. He did break the Rooney one on Saturday alright. But a pet peeve of mine is saying that something is definitely going to happen when you really have no way of knowing. He said Rooney WILL sign for man city.

I follow all the man utd journos but they can get a bit repetitive...you get sick of everything being looked at through red tinted glasses and my god these people are truly nerds of the game.

In life, they say you should never meet your heroes, you'll only be disappointed. Although I have no Heros on twitter some people really are better off knowing how boring they are. Rio Ferdinand is a tremendously boring and deluded man. No substance to him whatsoever. I'd go on about other celebs but this is a soccer thread.

to be fair to Rio, I don't think he can really open up on Twitter, too dangerous. Has to remain light hearted and away from serious topics.

monkey9

Somebody alluded to it the other night, but i love the way there are people who don't believe a thing that goes onto twitter, even if it's from journalists, yet when those journalists print the same things in the following day's newspapers, the article suddenly gains relevence!! :D

JerryHandbag

I've had a look at Robbie Savages twitter recently, always good for a laugh seeing him talk himself up so much

Dont be at yourself

Just started using it over the last few days really. Here's who I follow:

aarbeloa17 - Former Liverpool player Alvaro Arbeloa
LucasLeiva87 - Lucas!
RBuxton_LFC - Local Liverpool FC journalist
rorysmith_tel - Telegraph Liverpool correspondant
JimBoardman - Liverpool journalist
paul_tomkins - Liverpool journalist
empireofthekop - Liverpool fan
bensmith_times - Times footie journalist
OkiverKayTimes - as above
tariqpanja - Bloomberg reporter, covered LFC takeover
pkelso - Telegraph journo
danroan - BBC sports journo
RyanBabel - The biggest twit of them all
XabiAlonso - the one that got away
John_W_Henry - Liverpool owner
barneyronay - Guardian journo
spiritofshankly - Liverpool supporters' union
LivEchoLFC - Liverpool Echo LFC news
DelapSCFC - Rory Delap
OptaJoe - Interesting football statistics. Information.
sidlowe - La Liga journalist
Marcotti - Gabriele Marcotti
seaningle - Guardian writer
acjimbo - James Richardson
bglendenning - Barry Glendenning, Guardian hack

Anyone got any recommendations?

(@brendangered, btw)

gustavo

sligorovers of course

That_Guy

I use Tweetdeck to access Twitter feeds. Anytime a new tweet is tweeted... (stupid lingo) it appears on the top right hand corner of your screen.

Dead handy. I'd highly recommend that application to anyone.

Kiwi_knock

Robbie Savage is always a laugh to read, such a high opinion of himself but to be fair his twitter battles with Rio and Poulter were hilarious, completely destroyed both of them.

Vokes

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

Anyone got any recommendations?

jonawils - Jonathan Wilson, Football writer, Guardian, SI, etc..
Zonal_Marking - ZonalMarking.net
Santapelota - Roberticus - Football blogger (his Brazil football stuff is interesting).

monkey9

Vokes wrote: »

jonawils - Jonathan Wilson, Football writer, Guardian, SI, etc..
Zonal_Marking - ZonalMarking.net
Santapelota - Roberticus - Football blogger (his Brazil football stuff is interesting).

Zonal marking is probably the best football site i've been on.

monkey9

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

Just started using it over the last few days really. Here's who I follow:

aarbeloa17 - Former Liverpool player Alvaro Arbeloa
LucasLeiva87 - Lucas!
RBuxton_LFC - Local Liverpool FC journalist
rorysmith_tel - Telegraph Liverpool correspondant
JimBoardman - Liverpool journalist
paul_tomkins - Liverpool journalist
empireofthekop - Liverpool fan
bensmith_times - Times footie journalist
OkiverKayTimes - as above
tariqpanja - Bloomberg reporter, covered LFC takeover
pkelso - Telegraph journo
danroan - BBC sports journo
RyanBabel - The biggest twit of them all
XabiAlonso - the one that got away
John_W_Henry - Liverpool owner
barneyronay - Guardian journo
spiritofshankly - Liverpool supporters' union
LivEchoLFC - Liverpool Echo LFC news
DelapSCFC - Rory Delap
OptaJoe - Interesting football statistics. Information.
sidlowe - La Liga journalist
Marcotti - Gabriele Marcotti
seaningle - Guardian writer
acjimbo - James Richardson
bglendenning - Barry Glendenning, Guardian hack

Anyone got any recommendations?

(@brendangered, btw)

Jaysus, i don't think you need any more!! :pac:

dubmick

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

Just started using it over the last few days really. Here's who I follow:

aarbeloa17 - Former Liverpool player Alvaro Arbeloa
LucasLeiva87 - Lucas!
RBuxton_LFC - Local Liverpool FC journalist
rorysmith_tel - Telegraph Liverpool correspondant
JimBoardman - Liverpool journalist
paul_tomkins - Liverpool journalist
empireofthekop - Liverpool fan
bensmith_times - Times footie journalist
OkiverKayTimes - as above
tariqpanja - Bloomberg reporter, covered LFC takeover
pkelso - Telegraph journo
danroan - BBC sports journo
RyanBabel - The biggest twit of them all
XabiAlonso - the one that got away
John_W_Henry - Liverpool owner
barneyronay - Guardian journo
spiritofshankly - Liverpool supporters' union
LivEchoLFC - Liverpool Echo LFC news
DelapSCFC - Rory Delap
OptaJoe - Interesting football statistics. Information.
sidlowe - La Liga journalist
Marcotti - Gabriele Marcotti
seaningle - Guardian writer
acjimbo - James Richardson
bglendenning - Barry Glendenning, Guardian hack

Anyone got any recommendations?

(@brendangered, btw)

Here are a few more, I don't follow all of them, just have them organised in a list. You can't beat twitter for breaking football news.

henrywinter - Daily Telegraph
MOgdenTelegraph - Daily Telegraph
DannyDichio - Ex footballer
DGabsey - Danny Gabbidon - West Ham defender
robertearnshaw - Robert Earnshaw - tiny Welsh forward
JozyAltidore17 - Jozy Altidore - Hull City
FreddyAdu11 - Freddy Adu, still only 21
boyhunt - Noel Hunt, Reading
landondonovan - Landon Donovan
GuillemBalague - Sky Sport's spanish know it all
sammatterface - Former Sky Sports New presenter, now commentator on Talksport
IanTaylor7 - Ian Tarloy - Former Villa player (bit mad!)
kenearlys - Ken Early, Newstalk
DTguardian - Daniel Taylor - Guardian (he broke the Rooney story)
pbarclaytimes - Patrick Barclay - Times
stevebartram1 -manutd.com
DickinsonTimes - Matt Dickinson - Times
GrantWahl - Grant Wahl - NY Times/Sport Illustrated
BumperGraham - Graham Hunter - journalist in Spain
esdavids - Edgar Davids, footballer
nickcoppack - Nick Coppack, local Manchester journalist
BenHibbs - manutd.com editor
benlyt - Ben Lyttleton, European football writer
kevindaviesbwfc - Kevin Davies, footballer
rioferdy5 - Rio Ferdinand, footballer. Posts some rubbish in fairness.
ray_parlour - Ray Parlour, former footballer. Bit nuts too, not sure if it really is him.

Jax Teller

That_Guy wrote: »

I use Tweetdeck to access Twitter feeds. Anytime a new tweet is tweeted... (stupid lingo) it appears on the top right hand corner of your screen.

Dead handy. I'd highly recommend that application to anyone.

just downloaded that its real good lets you post to twitter and facebook and see everyones updates

Xavi6

I was a twitterphobe in the beginning but now it's always open in a tab. Great for news and pimping your own wares!

Eire-Dearg

Twitter is the best.

I knew it would catch on. Now that it's cool, I'm moving on.

everdead.ie

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

Twitter is the best.

I knew it would catch on. Now that it's cool, I'm moving on.

Does BPF have a twitter page?

Xavi6

cesc4official is Fabregas btw

Xavi6

everdead.ie wrote: »

Does BPF have a twitter page?

Yep - @bpfootball

jesus_thats_gre

I quite like twitter but I never access it from a computer for some reason. I only ever use it on the iPad

Would recommend following a guy called "twilo73". Very good for Real Madrid stuff.

everdead.ie

Xavi6 wrote: »

Yep - @bpfootball

Excellent thanks

Oat23

I only use it for sports news, it's great for that especially the websites that post links to all their articles as they go up. Flock + Twitter and you're sorted.

Dr.Winston O'Boogie

Love Twitter, drives me mad when people dismiss it as a "facebook status updates" ripoff. I would much rather read what some of my fav journalists/comedians/actors and soccer players are at than some irrelevant I was in school with years ago. I was sceptical at the start, I remember trying to sign up last year and it turned out I already had an account opened in Jan 2007, my first update was "I ****ing hate work". I didnt even have any followers. Needless to say not much has changed!!

Brilliant for breaking news, rarely tweet myself but you don't have to to enjoy it.

Guy:Incognito

dubmick wrote: »

FreddyAdu11 - Freddy Adu, still only 21
.

In dog years.

abouttobebanned

Someone should set up Boards_soccer

Keano

I'm another Twitter addict. It beats having to constantly check a whole host of sites such as BBC, SKY etc

Eire-Dearg

Some good follows -

@karlsentk - He's a former football scout
@JamesHorncastle - For Serie A stuff
@dan_bu - Bundesliga
@bundesliga_wrap - More of the same, with more thrown in.
@portugoaldotnet - Great for a taste of Portuguese football
@GreenSceneDotMe - This is new, basically all about Irish soccer, Irish players abroad, at home and so on
@ghostgoal - Just a guy and a blog, but good twitter updates
@neiljjones - I've always found this guy to be the quickest and most intelligent when it came to LFC stuff.
@FreddieBoswell7 - Another former scout with contacts deep in transfer dealings. Broke many a transfer during the summer well before it hit the media.
@SwissRamble - Great tweets from a blog about football finances. Not as boring as it sounds
@11tegen11 - Dutch tactics and analysis that is very interesting to keep in tune with.
@rcammisola - Nobody big here, just a lad who knows his football.
@MicroLFC - The tactical side of Liverpool, pretty interesting
@JenChang88 - A lad from Sports Illustrated who tweets some great links to articles on that site.
@NapoliBlogger - Relatively new, all about Napoli and Italian football.
@The72Football - Number one for the Football League. All 72 sides in fact.
@polishscout - Polish football.

There's more than enough for now. If you want I'll throw up another round of good names another day....

Nulty

Just read the OP...about time I set one up

event

monkey9 wrote: »

Somebody alluded to it the other night, but i love the way there are people who don't believe a thing that goes onto twitter, even if it's from journalists, yet when those journalists print the same things in the following day's newspapers, the article suddenly gains relevence!! :D

yep, this annoys me too

Royale with Cheese

Same as many people on here. Didn't see the point in it at first, but gave it another bash when I got a smartphone a few months back. It's extremely handy for getting football news, and news on anything else you're interested in really. Not sure I'd be bothered with it on a desktop, but great for news on the go.

tetsujin1979

I have a twitter feed set up to update whenever I update the Irish Abroad site - http://twitter.com/#!/irish_abroad

Mars Bar

I'm liking the greenscene.me one. Interesting to see the people declaring for Ireland.

mikemac

I avoided it for a long time but now I'm hooked. Have never used bebo or facebook either

But now I'm hooked on twitter, it's fantastic for breaking news

bonkers

@TonyCascarino62
@jack_wilshere
@dionobanion - dion fanning Sindo
@mcdonnellDan - dan mcdonnell indo
@mdelaneyST - tribune journo
@rohanricketts - former spurs arsenal - interesting columns
@ursus_arctos59
@TomDartTimes - London times journo
@Yorkshireradio - leed utd radio
@bbc_matt - bbc sport
@johncrossmirror daily mirror
@gergilroy - newstalk
@kenearlys - newstalk
@Matt_Barlow_DM
@nadderley bbc commentator
@jonawils - jonathan wilson - great
@owen_g - guardian
@juliette_grace bbc northern football corr
@markpougatch bbc
@CaulkinTheTimes
@JamesMawFFT
@Des_Kelly_DM
@GuillemBalague
@endabrady irish sky reporter
@Zonal_Marking tactics
@Ian_Ladyman_DM
@tonyleen irish examiner
@NickSzczepanik english indo
@GrantWahl SI.com NYT
@bglendenning irish guardian writer
@dangerhere
@DTguardian - one of th best

@ballsdotie - the best(i may be involved)

Boskowski

I'd say Twitter adds a new dimension of pointless rumours and unverified drivel from people 'close to the source'. You can take getting wound up over (literally) nothing to a whole new level.

Boskowski

monkey9 wrote: »

Somebody alluded to it the other night, but i love the way there are people who don't believe a thing that goes onto twitter, even if it's from journalists, yet when those journalists print the same things in the following day's newspapers, the article suddenly gains relevence!! :D

And you don't think there is a point to that at all?
You don't think there is a difference between something that has been blurted out on twitter and something that has gone onto a newspaper page?

RasTa

Any non-footy related good twiter sites? Comedy based..

speedboatchase

I use the Ecofon application for Firefox - every 2 minutes my Twitter feed gets updated in the bottom right-hand corner of my page. Very handy

TheDoc

Big twitter user myself, posting and following.

I use it as an on the go anywhere source for new and updates.

Mostly for football, android products and starcraft and world of warcraft stuff.

Have found you find most of the football gossip there first, and the big rumours that come truthful, originate on twitter accounts of players, inside people or journos.

everdead.ie

@jjenas Jermaine Jenas
@DB11TT Darren Bent

Mr Alan

Kenny Dalglish on twitter is the greatest thing in the history of the world.

Xavi6

Mr Alan wrote: »

Kenny Dalglish on twitter is the greatest thing in the history of the world.

Him tweeting to himself was funny as fook.

Mr Alan

His musings on Wagner/X Factor ranks fairly high up there with the kind of insight you never thought you'd encounter.

Pauleta

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