World Cup and Twitter

Over the past couple weeks we have talked about the new technology the World Cup is implementing. However, I am just completely mind blown about how much Twitter is cover the World Cup. It's almost like if you don't have direct access to the T.V. you can follow the game completely on Twitter. Lets take the last U.S.A. game for example. As I was watching the game I was checking my twitter account and everything was spot on. You didn't have to watch the game to know that one of the reasons U.S.A. struggle so badly was because there was horrific passing or the fact that Howard was a complete beast defending the goal.

Earlier we talked about how Twitter is becoming the go to place for sports. I completely agree that Twitter is making a strong campaign. Not only are you able to get professional updates about a game or event from Twitter, but also it is also like watching the game with 200 of your friends and maybe even a few enemies. Each person is able to tweet his or her own opinion before, during, and after the game. There is no “and that concludes our show today.”  This is something that is not possible with any other sports broadcasting website or show. Three days after the U.S.A. game I still saw tweets about Howard’s spectacular performance. Twitter's sports coverage is so quick and easy! 

Overall the amount of sports information one gains from simply logging on their Twitter is astronomical. After the World Cup is over it will be interesting to see where Twitter takes their sports coverage. I personally hope that they continue to cover sports in this way. I understand that it may be extremely difficult to customize each and ever twitter account to different sports, as sports are completely different across the world. But, if twitter could find a way to allow users to select their favorite NFL team during football season or even have updates about March Madness like they did for the World Cup I think it could possibly create a Twitter sports craze. I think it could be done. It would take time of course as covering sports across the entire world would take a tremendous amount of organization. Think about it though – Twitter Sports, your worldwide sports information place. Imagine the possibilities!