Kings Gameday: What the Hell is Twitter?
by RudyKelly on Jan 29, 2009 4:00 AM PST
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Frank Sinatra: Twitter. What is this crap? Sinead O'Connor, go.
Have to say, I've never heard of this shit until I found out the Kings are twittering now. I don't know, apparently it's like the Facebook update thing except it's really annoying and bothers you anywhere? Here's an example of a stirring Kings update:
Kings practicing at TSC.
Holy fuck, thanks Twitter. Good thing you made me look like an asshole for setting my phone off in the middle of a meeting to tell me that. I mean, are people so desperate to stay in contact with other human beings that they have to let them know where they are at all times? Or is it just that people want something new because people actually use Facebook now?
And that's another thing: Twitter. What the hell kind of name is that? It sounds like someone who jacks off in public places without pulling their penis out of their pants. Oh, and my roommate just explained to me that the term for when someone posts on Twitter is "tweeting." As Ralph Garmin might say, Nope.com.
Prediction: Kings win, 5-3. Patrick Kane scores a goal and then immediately tweets about it.
(This is what the Kings get when they don't bother to broadcast their home games.)
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_ I mean, are people so desperate to stay in contact with other human beings that they have to let them know where they are at all times? Or is it just that people want something new because people actually use Facebook now? _
Holy shit this.
<3 Rudy
This is fucked up… the one time where the Kings play a home game on Thursday, and I don’t have class, and I don’t have work, and the game isn’t televised by the Kings, and this isn’t one of the games I decided to keep?
Oh well, the Kings usually do well against the Hawks at Staples Center, so hopefully there isn’t any reason to watch tonight.
Fuck you, Denis Gauthier
And by “hopefully there isn’t any reason to watch tonight”, that’s supposed to be read as “hopefully they’ll win because I’m unable to see it, unless Center Ice shows the Comcast Chicago feed.”
Fuck you, Denis Gauthier
unless Center Ice shows the Comcast Chicago feed.
I haven’t heard one way or the other on tonight’s game, and I won’t be around anyways, but Center Ice has been great about not blacking out opponent feeds when the Ducks haven’t broadcast a game. I’d suspect, if CI has it listed, that it should be watchable in SoCal.
http://www.battleofcali.com/
At least up here, it’s Comcast SportsNet’s call on games being blacked out or not. That is, they own the exclusive rights to the games, and they can choose to have the games blacked out if they decide not to broadcast them. Starting this year, they waived that right, so I did watch a couple of away games on CenterIce. Hope it’s the same deal for you guys too.
I don’t know how Center Ice works. All I know is that when both feeds are televising a game, I’ll only get the FSN West feed. I’m not sure if that’s because they’re the local feed, or because I already get FSN West and don’t get Comcast (or whatever the opponent’s feed is). I assume if I had purchased Comcast on my DirecTV, I’d be able to watch the game if the network didn’t black it out, as mepex suggests.
The Hawks have always been a weird team when it comes to whether they air their games or not. What was it, a couple years ago they blacked out all home games with the hope that it would put butts in seats? I don’t know how they’ve worked with away broadcasts over the years, but I’m going to assume that they would’ve televised the Ducks game because the Ducks are a good team (or were when the schedule came out), and they might as well travel to Los Angeles to cover the game since they’ve already got all their guys and equipment out here.
Does anybody even know if Comcast broadcast the Hawks/Ducks game last night?
Fuck you, Denis Gauthier
atdhe.net- the game tonight is up there, and I’m almost 100% they will have every game the rest of this year (if you’re in class etc.).
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haha, well if you had Twitter…it would just update you on the score.
Funny thing about Twitter…which yes, I do have. I follow the Ducks updates and ironically, the Kings follow MY UPDATES?
GO DUCKS!! Girlwithapuck.blogspot.com
I’m just as lost as Rudy — I have no idea what this really means. Is it a series of text messages?
Whatever, I’m still pretty happy living in my 20th century internet. I know where to find game scores when I’m curious.
http://www.battleofcali.com/
Yeah, twitter is a way to get text message on the web, and you can subscribe to other people’s twitter feeds, either by reading them on the web, or having their ‘tweets’ send to your phone as a text message. These could include such gems as someone going to the laundromat or taking a dump.
And when you combine this with facebook status updates, mo-blogs, and poor grammar, it’s just one big bag of suckitude.
oh! And I also follow SBN…which tells me when you FINE GENTLEMEN post your blogs. I appreciate it! :)
GO DUCKS!! Girlwithapuck.blogspot.com
which tells me when you FINE GENTLEMEN post your blogs
Does it also tell you when those of us who don’t qualify as “FINE GENTLEMEN” post as well? ;)
http://www.battleofcali.com/
ROFL...
…over the Twitter thing. Awesome, Rudy.
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I for one
do not condone the use of Chicago’s blatantly racist mascot…
however this is a pretty funny concept logo:
http://bp0.blogger.com/_r8tWGVHrjGI/R0dJAKOrScI/AAAAAAAADHU/OQqdsU3rR-A/s1600-h/bhawksillinois.png
for mediocore Kings coverage from a hardcore fan:
http://theheirtothethrone.blogspot.com/
I agree. Also on the list: Houston Texans
Racist against racists.
People who save up for a rainy day are like milk. And milk goes good with cookies, so you should have those people over for cookies.
witter. What the hell kind of name is that? It sounds like someone who jacks off in public places without pulling their penis out of their pants.
Hell, it sounds like someone who would “tweet” while doing that sort of thing too.
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Twitter is one of the few stupid Internet networking gizmos I’ve managed to avoid. This Penny Arcade comic gave me a giggle.
Thank you
Rudy, thank you for wording everything I’ve felt about Twitter so I don’t have to.
OMGWTFBBQ
Hockey Wilderness on Twitter
Hockey Wilderness has 229 followers on Twitter, drives a lot of traffic to the blog from the twitterstream and has reached out to another audience by using both liveblogging on the game thread and tweets during games.
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