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TOPIC: USPL Twitter Page |
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| CZ18
May 28, 2013
1:37:17 PM
Entry #: 4061065
| For those who don’t already know, the USPL has launched its own Twitter account (twitter.com/The_USPL or click the blue ‘t’ icon located on the left toolbar of this page) where we will be sharing league news, scores, pictures/videos, etc. The Twitter page will be especially useful on nights when the weather is iffy as news on diamond conditions/cancellations will likely be tweeted before it is posted on the league website.
If you don’t have a Twitter account, don’t want one or are asking “what is a Twitter?”, you can certainly follow along without an account. Bookmarking the page on your computer and/or mobile device is a great way to stay in the loop.
If you have a Twitter account, follow us @The_USPL and we’ll follow you back. Please use @The_USPL in your USPL-related tweets so we can either reply and/or retweet. We encourage you to share news/scores/pictures/videos from your games.
Best of luck to everyone this season!
Chris Z
Kelsey’s #18
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| Birkey
May 29, 2013
2:49:43 PM
Entry #: 4061417
| Impressed, very progressive. What is a tweet?
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| CZ18
May 30, 2013
2:43:02 PM
Entry #: 4061722
| Thanks Birkey. Not sure if you are being sarcastic with your tweet question but I'll explain anyway for those who may be unfamiliar with Twitter.
Twitter is a social network consisting of small bursts of information called "tweets" which contain a maximum of 140 characters. You can add pictures, videos, links, etc. but must remain within the 140 limit.
Getting an account is free and easy to do at twitter.com. After you register, you simply "follow" other Twitter accounts which are of interest to you (i.e. USPL, Toronto Blue Jays, CP24, Bob MacKenzie, Snooki, etc). The Twitter mobile app is also free and very user-friendly.
If you guys have any other questions, please do not hesitate to ask.
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| That.Guy
May 30, 2013
3:41:39 PM
Entry #: 4061745
| What's a Snooki?
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| CantHit10
June 7, 2013
7:34:35 AM
Entry #: 4063847
| great idea
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| Empress Ruler
June 29, 2013
7:39:35 PM
Entry #: 4070069
| This is a great new addition to our league for info.
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| Knight
July 24, 2013
6:34:20 AM
Entry #: 4076292
| Thanks for putting this together. I used it last night to track the weather. A great idea!
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| CZ18
July 25, 2013
12:37:45 PM
Entry #: 4076705
| Thanks for all your great feedback and support. We are currently up over 100 followers and still growing.
I think it'd be great if we could get some post-game tweets from all teams. Gord from The Duchess has been terrific in this regard and if more teams/players get on board, our account will become more engaging for our followers. Don't forget to mention @The_USPL somewhere in your tweets or else we might miss it.
Thanks again to all who have supported this!
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| Rassie
July 26, 2013
2:13:38 PM
Entry #: 4077004
| CZ,
Thanks for putting it together.
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| Mara
July 28, 2013
6:29:26 PM
Entry #: 4077393
| Can we see the scores live?
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| CZ18
July 29, 2013
11:06:43 AM
Entry #: 4077560
| Great idea Mara, I think it'd be really cool to have live scores. We can do live scores using twitter provided that teams are diligent about tweeting in their scores. Whenever @The_USPL is mentioned in a tweet, Chris G Sr. and I get notifications on our phones so if we see that someone has tweeted in a game score, we can retweet it immediately for everyone to see. If/when you tweet, please keep in mind that not all of our followers are USPL players so we won't retweet anything that contains profanity and/or poor sportsmanship (save that for the forum).
The "next level" of live scorekeeping would likely involve paying a student to digitally scorekeep the games using a tablet and then uploading the box scores to the website. I'm not convinced that our league needs that level of scoring detail but it's certainly an option.
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| Fureza
August 2, 2013
5:00:37 PM
Entry #: 4079168
| live scores would be aswsome
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| PassThePuck
August 15, 2013
2:10:56 PM
Entry #: 4082907
| great
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| Fureza
August 16, 2013
6:38:17 PM
Entry #: 4083258
| The twitter page should have some more facts and items.
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| CZ18
August 18, 2013
8:56:41 AM
Entry #: 4083495
| Ask and you shall receive. The twitter page is intended to keep our players engaged/informed about the league so if anyone has ideas on how we can improve this please do not hesitate to post.
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| Tarheel
August 18, 2013
10:15:49 AM
Entry #: 4083511
| I would love to see one dedicated individual from each team to take two seconds of there time to tweet the final score of their game.
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| Fureza
August 29, 2013
7:30:43 AM
Entry #: 4086467
| great suggestion, we need more people to sign up
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| CZ18
September 4, 2013
8:45:40 AM
Entry #: 4087856
| It'd be cool if more people tweeted in their scores but I think that after games most guys are more concerned with locating a lawn chair and a cold one which is totally reasonable.
More followers would be great but I also think it'd be good for more of our local sponsors to create accounts. It's essentially free advertising every time a handle is used in a tweet and users are two clicks away from reaching the sponsor's website.
As the season is coming to an end, I just want thank those who have supported the twitter page this season. When the page was created I figured we'd get about 40 followers and as of this morning we are at 124. Keep posting your thoughts and ideas and hopefully we'll have an even stronger 2014.
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| Grdisgd
September 4, 2013
2:49:06 PM
Entry #: 4088023
| Great Job Chris !
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| Bud Wiser
September 12, 2013
12:01:58 AM
Entry #: 4090030
| The live or updated scores have been great, cheers.
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| Mara
September 13, 2013
2:01:56 PM
Entry #: 4090385
| Can we get the scores during the playoffs?
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| CZ18
September 13, 2013
4:43:14 PM
Entry #: 4090414
| Thanks for the positive feedback.
Yes, we will continue to do our best to provide live scoring. As always, it makes it a lot easier when players tweet their scores right after the games.
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| CZ18
September 23, 2013
12:15:18 PM
Entry #: 4092985
| Just want to take a second to thank those who were actively participating in, and/or following our Twitter feed this weekend. My phone was buzzing every few minutes with people mentioning @the_uspl which was terrific.
A special thanks to John and Shanna Kokonis, and John S and Greg S from Remax who were tweeting live updates from the booth at Crosby. I think I speak for all the followers when I say that the updates were awesome and much appreciated.
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| Korky
October 16, 2013
12:08:22 PM
Entry #: 4098037
| This twitter page is outstanding.
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| Guy Smiley
October 30, 2013
1:26:12 AM
Entry #: 4101347
| I joined twitter because ofbthis page and discovered a whole new world. Thanks to the USPL.
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| Knight
December 26, 2013
8:14:48 AM
Entry #: 4108998
| This twitter thing is outstanding.
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| Labtech
January 2, 2014
9:24:13 PM
Entry #: 4109368
| Signed up a few weeks ago, in a word....fabulous.
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| CZ18
May 12, 2014
10:40:31 PM
Entry #: 4125360
| Just a reminder that we continue to update our Twitter feed so give us a follow @The_USPL or simply follow along at www.twitter.com/the_uspl if you're not into the whole twitter thing.
Everybody loves up-to-the-minute scores and we do our best to tweet them but help is always appreciated so please tweet your scores using @The_USPL somewhere in the tweet. Pics, videos and anything else USPL-related are also encouraged.
Have a great season.
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| Knight
May 14, 2014
7:26:31 AM
Entry #: 4125595
| This twitter thing is awesome, thanks to all.
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| Rassie
May 25, 2014
10:37:33 PM
Entry #: 4127750
| I love the updates......keep them coming
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| Mara
June 2, 2014
4:15:19 PM
Entry #: 4128976
| Whatever happened to the camera so we can stream and see games live?
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| CZ18
September 15, 2014
10:49:01 AM
Entry #: 4145499
| Everybody loves live playoff scores and we are going to do our best to tweet them but it'd be great if teams could help us out by tweeting in their own scores. Be sure to use @The_USPL in the tweet so we can retweet it.
Best of luck in the playoffs and be sure to follow along on Twitter.
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