From this blog we all know that I am a baseball nerd.  However,  within baseball nerdom we do have discussions of the goings on of the internet.  Over at the Biz of Baseball,  Maury Brown ‘Why Twitter May Be the Greatest Thing Ever For Sportsfans’.

I didn’t read the article but the conversation on the article pulled up this gem of an explaination on twitter for regular people.  Great stuff.

Baseball Think Factory Post of the Article Above

#41 GM Posted: May 04, 2009 at 05:57 PM (#3163551)
I admit that I don’t really “get” how Twitter works. Is it like a mass text or something?

Twitter has three functions, a status update tool (a la Facebook), keeping up on people of interest, and keeping up on topics of interest. To accomplish this, you have access to all of Twitter’s functions through SMS messaging, its website, or an assortment of client applications for practically every platform.

The combination of all three functions basically creates an enormous ad hoc message board/comment section for everything. Topics can be created, and followed, on the fly, allowing for information to perpetuate, important or otherwise, incredibly quickly. The Swine Flu story basically shot through Twitter before anything else, and that’s the difference between it and something like Facebook, which exists in a sort of black box (which, w/r/t things like sharing photos with friends and family, makes perfect sense).

For instance, search for Mets during a Mets game (or obviously any team at search.twitter.com), and you get something awfully similar to a Game Chatter going on, as the results are a constantly updating conversation. Search for Selena Roberts and you’ll find a link to the same Jason Whitlock article Esoteric posted to the Newsblog, the same Duke Lacrosse story brought up in that posts comments section, and the same sort of questions regarding her journalistic integrity.

While that’s not directly what it appears to be, functionally, that’s what it is. If you want to know what people are talking about, or what people think about anything RIGHT NOW, Twitter is a useful tool to that end.

Just put the Google and the Facebook Connectors on the site. Thanks to the Willis for helping. Things on the web get really easy when there are different levels of nerds to help

I am thankful for the nerds I have. I understand, I have a blog that is called MeowSplash.com and that makes me a nerd too. That’s the thing with nerds, there are nerd specializations and you can be a nerd in one thing but not another.

Examples you say? Well, I would never consider myself a gamer nerd and I make fun of the gang here for it all the time. But I am a Baseball nerd – I mean I read at least 3-5 baseball books a year. Big ones at that.

The moral of the story? Everyone has their nerd in them. It’s just a matter of finding what makes them nerd out.

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