http://twitter.com/RicBucher Interesting... I guess ESPN wants more hits for their pages. Understandable.
wow another reason to hate espn the one sports writer they have that i still like for the nba and they muzzle hit but hey we can always holla at our boy stu scott
He hasn't explicitly mentioned this yet, but I'm wondering as well. Seems very silly. I never go to espn.com and won't just because Bucher will only be reporting from there. I'll just read the NBA Dish as usual.
You may have others but hating them for this doesn't make sense. Lets see the situation: ESPN is a corporation that is involved in news. So they make money when people get the news from them through their mediums (website, TV, etc.). Bucher is an employee of ESPN, and is paid by them to report news for them on their medium. By twitting his news instead of reporting it on ESPN, ESPN loses money. They lose money because of Bucher, no need to pay him for it. All of a sudden Bucher does not have access to the news anymore, and his twitter now only reads "must pay the rent somehow, will give sexual favors for food" Unless you are willing to pay ESPN to read Bucher's twitters, you can't b**** about the situation
To clarify, I never went to espn.com before so their choice to keep their journalists from tweeting potential content won't result in me going there now. I didn't even follow Bucher or Simmons until I found them on Twitter a couple of months back. It's only because of Twitter that I've recently paid attention to them. Now, I'll just go back to the way thing were pre-draft for me. No big deal there.
Word up. Don't understand why everyone is crying about it. Hell I'd prefer if Twitter was banned from America.
ESPN could have found an alternative. Smart organizations use new technology to their advantage, they don't try to stifle it. I'll bet 90% of the time I go to an ESPN page these days is because I'm following a link from someone's tweet. It seems like ESPN could have taken advantage of twitter and all the extra exposure it gave to their writers. Instead they look like the new Metallica vs. Napster.
Twitter is getting too big for its own good. I just heard an ESPN anchor attempt to read an Antonio Cromartie "Tweet" that contained at least 8 spelling and/or grammamatical errors.
Amusing... "ESPN Tells Employees" is now a trending topic on Twitter. @CarlHeppenStall ESPN tells employees: NO cash for your clunkers @wbrycem ESPN tells employees that the channel is being changed into the International Cricket Network, ICN, mass riots ensue @jtidwell808 ESPN Tells Employees to please stop forwarding the Erin Andrews peep hole video around the office. We all seen it last week. @mceffect ESPN tells employees that whoever says "Brett Favre" the most this summer gets an extra week of paid vacation @badbutchiebrown #ESPN Tells Employees to look Stuart Scott only in his good eye or he'll whack you with the hot side of the pillow.
ESPN does take advantage of twitter with their new show Sportsnation. I feel it is pretty understandable that they would ask Bucher to stop using Twitter to break news. Twitter is not paying Bucher, ESPN is. Also, just because you use twitter doesn't mean every one uses it too. I never use twitter, and I'm sure over 95% of Americans don't follow anyone's tweets.
It doesn't sound like they said he can't use Twitter; just that it must benefit ESPN when he does. I'd expect him to do tweets like "Hou-Cle trade close, details here" and put a link.
