Shark Pool vs. Twitter (1 Viewer)

[Monsters of the Midway]

There are some great follows on MofM's list.

How different is his list from yours?

You have me considering signing up for Twitter for the first time. Is it possible to follow an entire football list from someone like you or MofM with one click? Or will I have to manually add each individual Twitter account to follow myself?

Interested in seeing your list as well if you don't mind.

Thanks

My list is public, so if you bookmark the URL you can just look at it any time without having to do anything. If you want to reply, retweet etc you will have to log in. If you don't care about you can just look at my list.

 

[GregR]

If anyone wants here is the main list of national football sources I follow, with a little extra emphasis on the AFC South: https://twitter.com/GregR_FBG/nfl-sources.%C2'>

As far as Twitter vs Shark Pool, they are just different beasts for me. I mainly use Twitter for breaking news, humor and to get links to new articles. I also use Twitter to reach out to people whose opinion I'd like to get who aren't in the forum. I've been able to pick the brain of some folks from the national media on different topics thanks to twitter. Pereira and Ref Jim on NFL rules issues, Andrew Brandt on the CBA and NFL economics, a number of beat writers on situations on their teams, etc. As an example this week I tweeted and got an answer back from a Cardinals beat writer on their kick returner situation now that William Powell is gone.

So I like it for getting access to some specific people I wouldn't have otherwise. But beyond that, Twitter has too much volume, and too much of it unfocused, to meet my needs. I try to subscribe to mostly low noise, high bandwidth people. If every other tweet is about something other than football I tend to drop them quick. Even so, there's just too much there for me to keep up with.

I don't do a lot of searching for topics in Twitter, but I think I probably get more out of a Shark Pool discussion because it can be focused on a given topic, and people can speak at more length than a 140 character world allows.

 

[ShaHBucks]

Im sure it's been said but nothing beats Bloom's list on twitter.

 

[gmen56]

Sweetness what's the name of the auction strategy thread you are referring to? New to the forum and having trouble finding stuff about auctions

 

[Fiddles]

Totally agree with first post

 

[sweetness34]

Sweetness what's the name of the auction strategy thread you are referring to? New to the forum and having trouble finding stuff about auctions

http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=684107

 

[sobersometimes]

Conn - I'm getting busy at work right now, but if you're interested, I'll DM you some when I get home later. I could give you 20-30+ easy. There are some guys out there that are doing some of the best analytics on FF. It's crazy. And, since twitter is limiting in how long each post can be (duh), that's clearly a downside to long, thorough discussions (SP clearly superior there), but you often get links to great articles.

Send me the list too, if you don't mind. Thanks

 

[Judge Smails]

Conn, cool man. I'll see what I can do when I get home. I won't make any promises that twitter is better than sliced bread or anything, but it has been awesome for me.

Mind doing the same for me?

me too - thanks

 

[dewmass]

SP is far ahead of twitter imo. Its all but impossible to separate the wheat from the chaff on Twitter, here there are detailed threads about players that put far more flesh on the bones.

EBF, Coop, FFPeso, Adam Harstad to name but just the first few that come to my mind will win people championships every year.

The top posters on here don't get close to the credit they deserve from lurkers like me.

 

[ShaHBucks]

Xue is right. You have to sort the follows into lists and use something like TweetDeckif you really want to use it for maximum benefit. FWIW, I've compiled a "Fantasy List" https://twitter.com/TonyWiltshire/fantasy and another for "IDP" https://twitter.com/TonyWiltshire/idp-resources . I'll update it once we move a little closer to the season. Once training camp begins, I get a lot of use out of my "Beat Reporter" list https://twitter.com/TonyWiltshire/nfl-beat-reporters

I thought you said you were all out!!

 

[jeter23]

I'll echo the OP's comments and agree that I am on Twitter basically all day and check into the SP once or twice a week at this point. That is not because of anything that happened here, but just my preference for the Twitter format.

I can and have had meaningful back and forth conversations with not only fellow FF players, but also fantasy experts, beat writers, former GMs and others. Those are not things that commonly happen on any forum. That is one of the difference makers for me.

Also, if anyone needs a strong group of follows, just check my list. Other than a couple of UK guys, my follows are all football and all very active.

 

[sweetness34]

I'll echo the OP's comments and agree that I am on Twitter basically all day and check into the SP once or twice a week at this point. That is not because of anything that happened here, but just my preference for the Twitter format.

I can and have had meaningful back and forth conversations with not only fellow FF players, but also fantasy experts, beat writers, former GMs and others. Those are not things that commonly happen on any forum. That is one of the difference makers for me.

Also, if anyone needs a strong group of follows, just check my list. Other than a couple of UK guys, my follows are all football and all very active.

Jeter's list is quality - check it out. We follow tons of the same guys, and Jeter is a great follow too!

 

[Adam Harstad]

I'll echo the OP's comments and agree that I am on Twitter basically all day and check into the SP once or twice a week at this point. That is not because of anything that happened here, but just my preference for the Twitter format.

I can and have had meaningful back and forth conversations with not only fellow FF players, but also fantasy experts, beat writers, former GMs and others. Those are not things that commonly happen on any forum. That is one of the difference makers for me.

Also, if anyone needs a strong group of follows, just check my list. Other than a couple of UK guys, my follows are all football and all very active.

I'm the opposite. Distilling my thoughts down to 140 characters is probably great practice for me, but it gives me a headache.

Twitter is like a river. There's torrents of information, but you have to keep paying attention because it all rushes by so quickly, and once it's gone, it's gone. The Shark Pool is more like a lake (or, fittingly, a pool). There's some movement, but everything sits there a bit more, leaving you time to react and respond to it. Both have massive pros. The pace of Twitter is fantastic- I've got alerts set up on my phone whenever someone mentions me, so if anyone ever wants instant feedback on something, definitely shoot me a mention. The access is unbelievable. Pretty much everyone on there responds to people, so if you ever need to know anything, you can pester an NFL beat writer, a player, a fantasy "expert", an NFL analyst... really, the sky is the limit.

Still, I much prefer the Shark Pool and its more forgiving format which lets me ramble quite a bit more. I also think the slower pace is necessary for more in-depth conversations, or conversations where the participants aren't all online at the same time. The open format makes it easier for lots of people to participate, too. With everything always rushing by so quickly on Twitter, there's little chance for real meaningful give-and-take on a complex topic.

Verdict: use them both.

 

[sweetness34]

Adam, excellent post. You are right on. Like you said, the pace of twitter is such that if you don't check it at least every 3-4 hours, you'll miss information and you can't get it back. For someone like me, I hate missing out on info, so that is a major negative to twitter. The SP is great for the exact reasons you mentioned. BTW, I always paid attention to your posts -> SSOG. Always an excellent SP contributor.

You said it best: use both.

 

[GregR]

By the way, be sure to follow @FauxJohnMadden. One of the funniest accounts on twitter.

 

[LususV]

I follow over 1000 accounts on Twitter right now. Some days I'm active on it for 3-4 hours while multitasking. Some I don't touch it all. With the sheer # of football/baseball people I follow, from beat writers to national writers to fantasy writers to just fans, anything I miss will likely get retweeted at some point when I'm active.

 

[Bad_Mo]

twitter has a character limit. I don't mean to point out the obvious, but that really comes into play here. Do you want discussion or quick-hit news?

I luv 2 abrev my words 2 get 2 point.

 

[SWC]

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