Warren2ThaG Posted September 6, 2009 Report Share Posted September 6, 2009 NBA preparing Twitter guidelinesNBA commissioner David Stern told Yahoo! Sports on Thursday the league will soon follow the NFL in announcing Twitter guidelines and other social media restrictions for its players and coaches. “Obviously, there is a happy medium between tweeting before the game and tweeting from our bench during the game,” Stern said by phone. “You want to make sure that pop culture doesn’t intrude on what brought us here, which is the game, and that we show the right respect for the game.” The NFL announced its own guidelines on Monday by restricting players, coaches and football operations personnel – or anyone representing them – from using social media networks like Twitter and Facebook from 90 minutes before kickoff to the end of traditional media interviews after games. NFL game officials are banned from using social media at all times. Stern described the NBA’s guidelines as “nothing too serious.” “We just need to make sure when it’s OK to Tweet and when it’s not OK to Tweet so it at least focuses around the game,” he said. “It would look unusual for a guy sitting on the bench to pick up his cell phone, and I think we can agree that he probably shouldn’t be writing e-mails. It’s not about Twitter; it’s about the line of communication. That’s what we’re focusing on. “We’re happy to let it play out to see if it merits all the attention that it’s getting. We don’t want to overreact.”----More...http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AuxKkOAZ9b3Oq9GW6MhmsAy8vLYF?slug=mc-nbasocialnetworking090309&prov=yhoo&type=lgns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdog17k Posted September 6, 2009 Report Share Posted September 6, 2009 People are goin' crazy with Twitter. Not that it's a bad thing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sun Tzu Posted September 7, 2009 Report Share Posted September 7, 2009 It would certainly be awkward to see an NBA player pick up his phone and start tweeting, haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobb Posted September 7, 2009 Report Share Posted September 7, 2009 Kind of surprised that it's actually come to this. I personally never thought that Twitter would be so popular but boy was I wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lyc70 Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 seems interesting also. but men have their own character, just like superplayer center Sac and Yao, .... so see them outside the game, interesting more.http://www.snagpic.com/users/img/4676/n09x0302vnsn/clear.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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