Twitter is officially mainstream during the Amgen Tour of California (ATOC). Twitter is engaging race fans as professional cyclists traverse California for 9 days. Racers, team directors and fans are “in conversation” on Twitter using hashtags #atoc and #toc. (Hashtags are keywords included to identify common stream of conversation on Twitter.)
How to get Live Twitter Race Coverage
Get live race coverage on Twitter Search at http://search.twitter.com/search?q=atoc.
You don’t have to sign up for a Twitter to enjoy live commentary and race coverage about the Tour of California. Learn what the fans are seeing and thinking, what some of the racers and team directors are sharing.
Cycling fans are turning to Twitter to read these 140-character micro-blogging updates, aka “tweets.”
@rustyventure is thanking the Twitterverse for their coverage, as shown above. He concludes:
“best race news was #atoc.”
Social Media is now an alternative news source! Social Media offers ways for people to get their message out, to acquire and share information. We are the reporters and news aggregators! We’re helping others. I’m going to quickly cover how Twitter has become one alternative news source.
Broadcasting Twitter News
Twitter is a microblogging platform where people, world-wide, are communicating and broadcasting news. News is sent out as “tweets,” messages sent to Twitter. Each tweet is like a bird chirping, short and hopefully sweet – 140-characters or less. The conversation on Twitter may be as simple as updating what you are doing, posting links about informative or fun website articles, to providing information about fire and evacuations.
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Were you at the 1st “Game Changing Moves Twebinar,” the webinar on Twitter?
Did you sense the adrenaline of the conversations on Twitter?
Did you tweet and follow hashmarks for “#tweb” or “#tweb2″ on Summize?
On June 26, 2008, people interested in Social Media participated in a global conference of taped video interviews, live audio commentary by Chris Brogan (shown right), while texting their comments and perceptions into Twitter. The free event was so popular that it was live rebroadcast three hours later.
“Social Media Game Changer” was the first of a summer series. Visit Twebinar to learn more and decided if you want to join upcoming conversations. Read the rest of this entry »
Tweeple, people who “tweet” on Twitter, need to communicate in “messages” that are 140 characters or less. Men, in general, have fewer words in their vocabulary. Studies show men have approximately 1/4 to 1/3 the number of words in their “verbal arsenal” compared to a woman’s verbal capacity. This begs the question…
Does Twitter’s 140-character limitation favor men, since they use fewer words?
Women talk more than men, in general. Women are more relational and talk with others more, a quality that makes women good at marketing and communication. But, (all joking here) men talk a lot too, often about themselves.
Have you every talked using 140 characters? Is this possible? Yes! Conversations on Twitter often make this micro-blogging platform sink like a whale, and tweetie birds have to carry it back to life. Since men do “whale” in speaking with so few words, I’m assuming more men than women “tweet” on Twitter.
Hypothesis: Gabby men of few words are taking Twitter down!
Twitter Sexism?
We’re having a controversy, um, I mean conversation, about this on Sphinn: Friends on Twitter = No Life?” Feel free to chime in with your thoughts. (It’s all in fun, mind you.)
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