Like everyone else in the biz, we’re high on Twitter as a service for delivering the news to you. I won’t get into a long discussion about the benefits of the latest online fashion for the dying newspaper industry in its attempts to stay relevant in the rapidly advancing world of social media. Let’s just say this: We intend to use Twitter as an effective, not to mention practical way for delivering real-time news reports to the masses.
What does this mean for high school football? It’s simple:
You have a Twitter account, you have a mobile phone (with internet or text messaging), and you’re going to a high school football game.
So while you’re there, send out a tweet about what’s going on at your game: A score, a scoring update or whatever else you feel is appropriate. Most important, you must add a hashtag (for the uninitiated, a mark designated to file your tweet under a common topic on Twitter) at the end of your message.
For Connecticut high school football, when you tweet at a game, leave room for the hashtag #cthsfootball in your 140 character allotment.
That will group your updates with all of the other tweets coming from fans and Connecticut Post reporters across Southwestern Connecticut (and, if we’re fortunate, from around the state) and allow anybody to see every update by searching #cthsfootball.
If we get enough participation, searching #cthsfootball will allow anybody with a computer or a mobile phone to see what’s going on as its happening. There will be no need to scramble for updates or scores from phone calls or text messages to people that may or may not be at the games. It will be right at your fingertips whenever you want.
So if you have a twitter account, don’t forget to give us your updates this high school football season.
If you don’t have a twitter account, get one so you can get all the football information you’ll ever want on a Friday night. You can sign up for a free account at twitter.com. Don’t forget to follow the Connecticut Post high school section at connHSsports, sports reporter Henry Chisholm at misterHRCee or me at SPBowley and any of our other reporters whose accounts will be made available soon.
In fact, get started this preseason. We’re already out there.
Happy tweeting!
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