Filed under: Media Watch, General CFB InsanityWhen Pat Forde created his Twitter account in April of 2009, he recalls thinking that it was stupid. "My first tweet," says Forde, a college football and basketball columnist for ESPN.com, "was, 'I have nothing interesting to say.'"
Sixteen months and more than 5,300 tweets later, Forde has long abandoned his initial prejudice toward Twitter. "It's kind of like sitting at this giant cyber-sports bar and only sitting next to people you find interesting," he says. "Twitter has pretty much become the morning newspaper. It's the first site I visit every day."
Millions of "internet people", as Florida coach Urban Meyer refers to us, follow suit. And many of them follow Forde, who is the most popular (27,677 followers as of Monday, August 9) tweep among sports writers who specifically cover college sports. Of course, in the time you have spent on this story, Erin Andrews has probably gained another thousand followers, but that's a different story.
"Twitter is like having a twisted AP wire," says Forde, whose Twitter bio reads "Father, husband, sportswriter, curmudgeon."
"Look at all the information out there. When I first got on Twitter, I thought it would be people telling you what they had for dinner. But it's not. It's being privy to as much information, provided as immediately as information ever has been, as you can possibly digest."
Twitter 200, Part 1: Intro and First 100 (and 1) Media
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