The Importance of Twitter
by Rated-R Superstar on Jul 28, 2010 1:13 PM PDT
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What does Twitter have to do with the Oakland Raiders? Well, believe it or not, it has a lot to do with it. It's a great way to stay connected and get updates for all of your Raider needs. The best way to get Raider news is via Twitter by following the right people to get what you want and when you want it. The first source for everything in any sport is Twitter and that's no different for Oakland Raiders news. Twitter keeps you connected to everything Oakland Raiders as it happens. Hit the jump for some accounts for you to follow.
Vittorio Tafur of the San Francisco Chronicle is a great follow. Today, he was at Tom Cable's live press conference (for which there is still no story despite there being a live stream) and is giving us a rundown of what he said. Tafur is the lead writer for the Raiders for the Chronicle newspaper.
Henry Wofford of Comcast SportsNet Bay Area and California is one of many CSNBA and CSNCA reporters. This year, he's been informed that he's covering the Raiders. He does a great job on pregame and postgame shows and I'm looking forward to him covering the Raiders. He'll be with the team from Saturday to Monday.
Jerry McDonald is a veteran when it comes to covering the Raiders. He writes for the Bay Area News Group and constantly has updates for us in OTAs and in training camp. Today, he tweeted that discussions are ongoing between the team and first-round pick linebacker Rolando McClain.
Those are the three most important guys for me to follow for all of my Raider news and info. If you're interested in more, let me know in the comments and I'll help you out or perhaps someone else can. Again, today was Tom Cable's press conference and hit the link for Tafur's or Wofford's Twitter accounts and scroll down for what they broke down from the press conference. The only big thing was Cable announcing quarterback Jason Campbell as the starter, but it's not like that was a big shock or anything.
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I'm not a fan of it...
I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I don’t want to receive 10,000,000,000 useless tweets to my phone whenever a player does something I don’t really care about. I am intrigued that you get important news information, but it just doesn’t seem worth it, and besides, this site is all I need(and the pats site, but that’s another thing). :)
I'm also a Raider Fan dammit!!! RAIDER NATION!!!!
Down with Big Brother!
You don't have to make an account. Unless you want phone alerts or something.
But if you’re online and have a computer just check every once in a while their twitter accounts and you’ll see the tweets, you just have to refresh every now and then to see if the writer submitted new tweets.
what's the site, or place to check on any of these "tweets."
I'm also a Raider Fan dammit!!! RAIDER NATION!!!!
Down with Big Brother!
Fuck Twitter
and Twatting. I am in no need in being in touch with every thought and incident someone posts. Like for real. Do we really need all of this contact? Are we so insecure and in need of suckling we have to be socially in touch with each and every person in some way some how?
God help us all. Put down the toys and talk to the people next to you that are important.
Win at all costs! Winning ugly is still winning! Remember the past and what got us to the top before. Jim Plunkett and winning ugly......enough said!
by TheLyleAlzadoPunch on Jul 28, 2010 2:29 PM PDT reply actions
Nope
Its not sound bites, snippitts and trolling for the most part. Not for the most part any of those except for the occasional troller or glory hound that over posts.
Win at all costs! Winning ugly is still winning! Remember the past and what got us to the top before. Jim Plunkett and winning ugly......enough said!
by TheLyleAlzadoPunch on Jul 28, 2010 2:35 PM PDT up reply actions
I am with you about sites like these being home for substance and entertainment
Also it sets up for more discussion and interaction. Still, it is just another toy to feed our Raider addictions.
I am with you though. Sights like this add way more to life than people placing narcissistic twats. And I agree about the suckling. Is it really that important to know that so and so signed with someone the instant it happens? I’d rather read about it ten minutes later on a site like this.
Maynard for Jesus.
Actually, I am thinking about having that new twitter brain screen installed.
The one that flashes all updates in the twitter universe to my optical nerves. I’ll never be out of touch again. Gotta go. I don’t know what Ashton Kutcher had for lunch today.
Maynard for Jesus.
It is also
a gathering site for people that are for the most part true fans not leeches or clingons hoping to befriend or brag that they are following so and so or anything else along those lines.
Win at all costs! Winning ugly is still winning! Remember the past and what got us to the top before. Jim Plunkett and winning ugly......enough said!
by TheLyleAlzadoPunch on Jul 28, 2010 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Who Needs A Soap Opera...
Leave that crap to those who need it…I have a life and I’m too busy leading it to the full to waist my time wading threw endless garb looking for something useful…
Why the hell would I….I can just wait a few extra tics until one of you find it and post it here…That way I only get the substance of it and the discussions as well if desired…
by PantyRaider on Jul 28, 2010 11:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Let me just say that you don’t have to be “wading threw endless garb” to get what you want. Just follow the people you want updates from and that takes care of it.
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Jul 29, 2010 12:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Don't Look -n- Don't Believe
Sounds nice but that person you follow prolley has several things to report that are of absolutely no interest to me…If I see a headline on the net I can chose to open or chose to escape…No harm done…But if it’s word bites on my phone I have to read before I know it’s not worth reading and needs to be dumped…Meanwhile the “Neg” is already planted and will get processed with all the other crap I try to avoid…
I have a 90% positive life and outlook on the things I’m involved in…I preserve that by refusing to allow the crap entrance to memory banks where it can eventually cause disruption….I filter the TV as well as the Net…Now I would have to also worry about filtering the Phone messages….Not at all worth the effort…
I also now live outside US AirSpace in a more primitive Asian culture on the beach and Thai border…Koh Kong, Cambodia…Where it’s easier to stay clean…
by PantyRaider on Jul 29, 2010 12:17 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, man... gotta stay clean. Right on! Rock n' Roll, man!
Gotta go; there’s a righteous drum circle startin’ up in the forest. Gonna wear my Che Guevara t-shirt, hug some trees, and just kinda turn on, tune in, and drop out, man!
Cool story, bro.
"I came back with an I-Don't-Care attitude. If I had an open shot, I was taking it."
--The Robert Horry
I bleed Purple N' Gold and Silver N' Black... because of this rare condition, I am no longer allowed to donate to the Red Cross.
by The_Power_and_the_Glory_of_Robert_Horry on Jul 29, 2010 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions
follow me
Raidersblogger on twitter
I am here to inspire and light fires~~~Where there is smoke in the ears, there is me on the mind~~~
Twitter is printed soundbites.
It is the first place news breaks, but it is the last place for substance. Thanks for the links. It is another resource that has found its niche.
Overall though, S&BP is the most entertaining and informative home for all things Raiders in the entire history of the universe.
Maynard for Jesus.
+1
Thank U. The key part of your statement for me is “last place for substance”. and S&BP is the most entertaining and informative for all of us.
Win at all costs! Winning ugly is still winning! Remember the past and what got us to the top before. Jim Plunkett and winning ugly......enough said!
by TheLyleAlzadoPunch on Jul 28, 2010 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions
It is the first place news breaks, but it is the last place for substance.
That’s not true. There is substance because a link is provided when a story breaks. For example, when ESPN’s Marc Stein reports an NBA free agency signing, he tells you what happened and there’s a link a minute or two later.
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Jul 28, 2010 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions
What more do you want?
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Jul 28, 2010 2:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Nothing.
My question was posed to illustrate the point that it is those sites that carry the substance and not twitter itself.
Maynard for Jesus.
I understand what you’re saying.
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Jul 28, 2010 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions
We get that
stuff here already. So with what you stated it’s simple redundancy which is just a waste of time.
Win at all costs! Winning ugly is still winning! Remember the past and what got us to the top before. Jim Plunkett and winning ugly......enough said!
by TheLyleAlzadoPunch on Jul 28, 2010 5:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Hm, I wonder what Twitter did to you. The point is that Twitter helps you keep everything organized in one location and the news is there first. You don’t have to wait around for it. “We get that stuff here already” doesn’t fly. How many links were posted here when Tom Cable was giving his press conference?
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Jul 28, 2010 6:28 PM PDT up reply actions
I bet one day a super hot chick approached him and said: "Do you twitter?"
He then got confused and said: “What is that?” She then lost interest and said:“No nothing, nevermind” Lyle soon grew angry at the world, actually just twitter, and vowed to never want anything to do with this blasphemic epidemic called twittering and twitter. He actually assumed it was something to do with birds, as birds tweet a lot in the morning, so he said: “Who the hell in their damn straight minds want to get the bird flu by touching these creatures?”
He soon came here for Raider news as he always has many times before, and dumbfounded he stood, as now he knows what twitter really is. He grew angry at the world again (actually just twitter). And so the cycle began again.
Easy, tiger.
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Jul 28, 2010 6:54 PM PDT up reply actions
I lol'd at your comment, not to drag you into this Rated R, but it opened the window for my train of thought to come up with a story.
Yes, I’m sorry, I apologize Lyle. Lets move on. Can’t wait for preseason! Whooooo!
Your story
although lightly amusing, misses his point. I agree with him. His point is that he doesn’t need to have instant info all the time expecially snippets. If it is importnat for him to know, he’ll find it here where he can discuss it with other passionate fans or he’ll get it from a friend etc. Is it important to get lambasted with info all the time from/about people we don’t know personally (if we do we can talk with them) or on matters that are not life and death no matter where you are? Do we really need this excessive stimuli? I say no.
Don't shoot, I'm a man.
I know what he means... I just made it up because I saw the opportunity by a previously posted comment.
It was just for kiks, i should’ve posted it quickly after I posted my crafty story. You gotta admit it was crafty no?
Hey asshole
if you think you can start with me and walk away unscathed think again, well if you could think I would say think again. If you want to start the personal attacks I can stand toe to toe and level you so stop your mouth while it can still cash some cheques.
Win at all costs! Winning ugly is still winning! Remember the past and what got us to the top before. Jim Plunkett and winning ugly......enough said!
by TheLyleAlzadoPunch on Jul 28, 2010 7:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Hahahahahahaha
"The A's have to be setting some record this year for simultaneously maximizing team quality and player anonymity. I guess that’s sort of their thing though." - Luke in MN
Before you make
a guess at who hot chick (she was actually your mom so she isn’t hot but she pays me well) think about what kind of can of worms you have opened up.
Win at all costs! Winning ugly is still winning! Remember the past and what got us to the top before. Jim Plunkett and winning ugly......enough said!
by TheLyleAlzadoPunch on Jul 28, 2010 7:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I was kidding, C'mon it was pretty crafty since I was bored as hell.
Were did I attack you?, I just said a fairy tale, just for laughs, sorry…I thought you might’ve found it to be funny, if it were reversed I would have just lol’d because obviously it’s not true…
You and probably nobody else
on this site should make personal attacks on me and vice versa. This is a site where we spar or have consensus on issues related to THE OAKLAND RAIDERS.
If your bored go down the street from your trailer park and help the homeless and the needy by giving them your Schlitz beer cans for recycling money. Otherwise don’t tread on thin ice with that shark underneath lying in wait for you to fall through the ice.
Win at all costs! Winning ugly is still winning! Remember the past and what got us to the top before. Jim Plunkett and winning ugly......enough said!
by TheLyleAlzadoPunch on Jul 28, 2010 8:15 PM PDT up reply actions
It was never even close to personal. I didn't think you would take it personal.
And I did not refer to you as you are refering to me with those cheap insults. Since when is a hot chick approaching you insulting?
A piece of advice
Quit while you are ahead. You know you did it just stay within the discussion at hand. I don’t know you and you definitely don’t know me so DO NOT CAST DISPERSIONS OF MY PERSONAL LIFE, WHAT I DO IN IT OR ANYTHING ELSE.
Win at all costs! Winning ugly is still winning! Remember the past and what got us to the top before. Jim Plunkett and winning ugly......enough said!
by TheLyleAlzadoPunch on Jul 29, 2010 5:01 AM PDT up reply actions
LYLE
i shall be using the shark under the ice bit, quite good. well done.
and i like how you warned him a few times… nice.
I'll Get Inside Your FACE!
Yes, that me with Lois Griffin...
by VaderBDCRaider on Jul 29, 2010 8:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Please feel free
I will give some credit to the movie Snatch but I personalized it a bit and shortened. Such a good and appropriate line for me in anger.
Win at all costs! Winning ugly is still winning! Remember the past and what got us to the top before. Jim Plunkett and winning ugly......enough said!
by TheLyleAlzadoPunch on Jul 30, 2010 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Another tidbit from the presser today:
Tom Cable likes his team. Via Jerry McD’s blog not twat:
Cable wasn’t shy about proclaiming the Raiders a factor in the division, regardless of preseason prognostications. He said the "changing of the culture" has been complete.
I tend to agree. I picture Al proclaiming this to doubters like the emperor told Luke to witness the power of the fully operational Death Star.
Maynard for Jesus.
Another good example of Twitter is providing this for us:
RAIDERS
Raiders Head Coach Tom Cable’s press conference video highlights on Behind the Shield: Online, watch now. http://tinyurl.com/2cpg5uo
2 minutes ago via web
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Jul 28, 2010 2:51 PM PDT reply actions
Yeah because without Twitter
I would have never known to check the Raiders site for Raider News.
Maynard for Jesus.
I understand what you’re saying, but Twitter lets us know when that’s available. That way, you don’t have to waste your time by checking and checking.
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Jul 28, 2010 3:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I gotchya. It's fun to bust on twitter, because there is so much crap there.
They do make it easy to find out where to go to get the news on the subjects you are interested in.
Maynard for Jesus.
Yeah, there is a lot of junk on Twitter for sure. I stay away from that. Eighty of the percent accounts I follow are about sports and the rest are my friends and general news in the world.
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Jul 28, 2010 3:25 PM PDT up reply actions
A lot of people do and all of these writers wouldn’t have Twitter if they didn’t find it useful themselves.
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Jul 28, 2010 7:14 PM PDT up reply actions
I dont know how important twitter is..... but i do follow jerry mcdonald....
I dont have the chance to log onto the internet all day at work so i feed my Raiders addiction through tweets that i can check in like 2 seconds on my phone.
Check out all Active raider twitters at once
www.RaiderThoughts.com aggregates all the team players twitter posts in real time and comments on them – its new.
you don't need twitter
it’s useful if you sit there all day and hover over your monitor but there are better ways of tracking news feeds like rss. Everyone knows Jerry McDonald but Raider coverage took a hit when David White of the SF Chronicle was re-assigned to cover the 49ers. His replacement, Vittorio Tafur is useless. He knows very little and is not a good writer. David White had a lot of contacts and really understands the politics of the organization. Also, we don’t hear much from Steve Corkran anymore, maybe because of cutbacks at whatever paper he is with. Hopefully he starts reporting again. He is plugged in more than anyone (including McDonald).
The "Mac" Has Some Good Mixed With The Bad...
His reports on the facts are done well enough the majority of the time but many times are spoiled by his opinionated input as he tries to clarify what was said or done….He posts those opinions as though they are all part of the factual evidence but they are not…Some fans read those opinions into the record and come away demanding it’s true because they heard it from the “Mac”…
In my opinion…The best practice would be to separate your opinions from the facts by simply saying “I Think” or “This Appears” but that’s not how it’s done…Second to which is the fact that he works for an employer who may have an agenda and demands for a little negative input regarding some issues…Third is that some readers will not follow if they don’t get their regular dose of “Soap Opera” crap mixed in so by nature it’s required to be negative….
by PantyRaider on Jul 29, 2010 12:05 AM PDT up reply actions
While we can argue particulars about "tweets" and how important they are
the fact is the players that do it understand there are things that can be said and things that cannot in the land of social media. Like it or not; it’s absolutely important in it power it suddenly possesses, and as I said, like it or not, today’s young NFL largely does, and partakes with the use of today’s handy handheld social media and networking devices.
While I don’t want to hear every time someone has to take a shit and wipe his or her ass either, I absolutely immediately followed Tyvon Branch, and then Mike Mitchell, and then Nnamdi Asom1, and then for the hell of it, because I read that Quentin Groves, already the possessor of some 200 followers among Raider nation, had already invited random folks out to the movies and to dinner to his twitter followers. Something like, “the first 50 people to show get in free.” I guess once there was such a big turnout, he paid for everyone anyways. I was really close to accepting an invitation to attend a party for the BET awards to the twitter nation from Michael Huff.
Believe it or not, LAP, I too, resist the information age, and miss my two dixie cups and a string phone, but got a new smart phone when I fell into the water with my prior one on me on a fishing trip, one that somehow innately intertwines all your email accounts and prompts you to sign up for twitter and fb and all the other nonsense media, and I’m among them,
I can say, with dignity, I’ve never “tweeted,” anyone myself, nor ever would. Just follow. And it’s pretty freaking cool to see these guys hanging out together in the offseason on my phone.
"If your only ambition in life, is to be a better person; well, that's just the best ambition you can have..." Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew
I am by no
means anti-technology. I find that these types of social media networks become a must have for a lot of people now. There is status and importance put upon how many you are on and how many followers/friends/contacts you have. I also think its a regurgitation of redundancy for most of the sites. Facebook and Twitter seem to be alomost mirror images of what they embody with moderate differences on delivery and design. My daughter is all over facebook, MSN, and probably other IM sites. They funny thing is its the same people on the same sites saying the same thing. You really don’t need 12 different social media sites doing the same thing. People take having these things as I stated before as a status. If anybody chooses to use/post/troll whatever on all or any combination of these place go for it. But when your belly begins to hang like an inner tube over your XXXL track pants and pushes from under your XXXL beer/KFC/Pizza Hut stained white wife beater, you have glasses that are 4 inches thick, tinting and your skin could keep you camouflaged in a snow bank because you are all consumed with following/posting/twatting. You may decide it was a little too much.
Win at all costs! Winning ugly is still winning! Remember the past and what got us to the top before. Jim Plunkett and winning ugly......enough said!
by TheLyleAlzadoPunch on Jul 29, 2010 7:38 AM PDT up reply actions
To say you are anti-technology is very close minded. I will admit Facebook, myspace, twitter is somewhat waste of time depending on who you are following or messaging to.
I am all for innovative technology that will change the world little by little. I do wonder about the stars and say: “One day technology will get us up there to explore this universe full of wonder and life beyond our small solar system boundaries; we must expand beyond this spec of a planet.” If that really is your pic I make the assumption you are an outdoorsman, which would explain your views, which are respectable but limited, regarding technology..
Don’t get me wrong I like being an outdoorsman when I have the time to go out camping, fishing, etc. but I do think very highly if not more of importance to technology itself.
I mean no disrespect, i just have a different opinion regarding technology.
You may think that I m seeking you out and just replying to your comments like a stalker or hater but i am not.
I just saw the opportunity to voice by opinion and views regarding technology. But did you really mean technology itself? or just social sites technology?
Ok dude
Look we all disagree and have intense passionate debates and counters on points of interest. So please disagree with me anytime but just lay off getting personal. Thats all. I was discussing technology in general.
Win at all costs! Winning ugly is still winning! Remember the past and what got us to the top before. Jim Plunkett and winning ugly......enough said!
by TheLyleAlzadoPunch on Jul 30, 2010 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions
The best advertisement for the value of twitter was the minute to minute updates regarding
the Jason Campbell trade during the draft.
I also have had several personal interactions with my favourite player Mike Mitchell through twitter and have had a few rounds of UFC 2010 on xbox with him all because of twitter.
LOVE IT!
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"You know Michael Jackson told me to Beat it and I did when I heard the Raiders drafted McClain." - noontide
I don't need twitter to tell me Ryan Boschetti was going to be cut before training camp started...or do I?
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