LeBron James’ Twitter feed is unique. His background is a montage of pictures of what appears to be his fans. He doesn’t tweet every day but for the most part it seems like when he does tweet he spends some time on it. He has definitely been commenting on the NCAA tournament and seems to have a lot of opinions about who should win. He wrote “Aaron Craft best defensive perimeter and maybe all around in college ball!” on March 22nd. He then congratulated Ohio State on moving onto the Elite 8. He like Ohio State a lot because he gave Urban Meyer a shout out. I think it is cool when the NBA players comment on specific parts of a college game and on March 22nd he also said he thinks the Charge Call is out of control in college. He even talked about UK and the Blue Nation.
His interaction with fans on twitter is not overbearing like some people who retweet things each night. He asked last night for questions and said he would answer them for fifteen minutes. I think that is a good way to control the crazy tweets he must be getting all of the time. He would be someone who would deal with Twitter differently than the average person. For instance, he probably never looks at his mentions or even has the capability on his phone because of the number of tweets he gets.
Twitter is important for people to become accessible to the fans though and I think it is helpful. He seems to use it in a good way and expresses his opinions but also gives credit to people he holds in high regard. When it comes to his own game, he will let you know if he feels that he is disappointed in a loss. One example is on March 3rd when he said, “Man I have a sick feeling right now! Really wanted tonight’s game. I just had to make one more dang play out there”. This is a way to show his fans that he is a real person and cares about wins and losses.
Christian Watford
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