Twitter Phenomenon

Ronnie Phillips is a guest blogger and welcomes your feedback on the topic.

Twitter, in the last year or so, has exploded onto the scene. Twitter is a main feature on nearly everything on TV and the Internet. Shows like SportsNation on ESPN, make it a point to have “tweets” from everyday people like you and me, on their show.

Many pro athletes like Kevin Durant, Chuck Liddell, Chad OchoCinco, Larry Fitzgerald, and the most followed athlete on Twitter Shaq with 2,507,227 followers! And he is getting more every day. Even the president of the United States has his own Twitter page!

Which comes to my next question. Why are people so interested in what the pro athlete and movies stars are doing at any single moment? After being on Twitter for awhile now, the pro athletes do the same things as we do. Like Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, James Harden, and Jeff Green from the OKC Thunder, went to the movies to watch Saw VI and in a tweet by James Harden he said “How crazy is this?..we are at the movies and we are the only people in here watching saw!!!!!...this I crazy!!!..I'm scared lol.

I must say, I’m on Twitter all the time just to see what these types of guys are doing! It is nice to see what your favorite athlete is doing at any time of the day. Many of the athletes I follow, will give you trivia questions and if you are right and one of the first people to respond to the Tweet, they will send you signed autograph pictures and even tickets to a game. Larry Fitzgerald and Jason Terry of the Mavericks seem to do this on a regular basis!

With the Twitter phenomenon at full force and only going to get bigger, are you a “Tweeter”? If you’re not, you should definitely give it a try, you’ll never know who you might come across!

I can be found at www.twitter.com/chubbs23rp.