Awesome Softballers On Twitter
Twitter is a real time social media network that allows users to post short updates about what they’re doing to a timeline. When you join twitter for free, you can see all the updates posted by people you “follow.” Twitter is very simple and straightforward without the “fluff” off applications, games, photo albums, and other add-ons that other social media networks like MySpace and Facebook have.
It does take a little time to get the hang of the conversation and community there, but once you do, you can meet some great people and learn things you would have never known if it wasn’t for twitter. The best way to do it though, is to just jump in and try it.
Here’s what you need to do to get started:
- Go to Twitter.com
- Click on “Get Started-Join”
- Fill in the form and click “Create my account”
- Input your account/profile/settings information
- Then look for cool people to follow
To help get you started, here’s a bunch of softball people I’m following (after you’re logged in to your account, click on the links below then click on the “follow” button on these twitter people’s pages):
NCAA WCWS: http://twitter.com/NCAAWCWS
DI Coach Bill Vasko: http://twitter.com/CoachBook
Marc Dagenais: http://www.twitter.com/coachmarc
Steven Anderson: http://twitter.com/ATumblebug
Jessica Jobes (MittMate): http://twitter.com/JessicaJobes
Angela Tincher: http://twitter.com/ATinch1
STATE the Movie: http://twitter.com/statethemovie
We Play: http://twitter.com/weplay
Philadelphia Force: http://twitter.com/PhilaForce
ASA Softball: http://twitter.com/ASASoftball
Ringor: http://twitter.com/ringor
Big West Softball: http://twitter.com/BigWestSoftball
Barry Lovelace: http://twitter.com/barrylovelace
Fastpitch News: http://twitter.com/FastpitchNews
Oh yeah, and you can follow me at http://www.twitter.com/staciemahoe 
There are also some pretty cool softball parents on twitter as well. You may see me talking to them every now and then. Any time you see me talking with other twitter users about softball, I’d suggest clicking on their twitter name to go to their page so you can see if you’d like to follow them too. If so, just click on the “follow” button on their page.
I’m seriously thinking about doing some short tutorial videos to show you some twitter basics. I’ll certainly let you know if I get those made!
