Cell phone hell
The great thing about Twitter, besides the fact that certain
female celebrities love posting half-naked pictures of themselves (yes
Rhianna, I’m talking about you), is that it allows me to semi-follow
Mets games without having to constantly open up Mets.com or the
Sportscenter app on my phone. I say semi-follow because @Mets only
sends out tweets when the Mets have done something good, so a long break
between @Mets tweets during a game is never a good sign. As they are
the only team I follow on Twitter, I have no way of knowing if this is
standard practice for all the teams. And though they made a game of it
Saturday, including HRs by Buck and Byrd, not a single tweet was sent
out during their 7-6 loss. From what I understand, there are several
people who control the @Mets account, and although I’ve tweeted them on
several occasions saying, “Every score change deserves a tweet” I’ve yet
to get any sort of reply.
The other problem to following games this way is when you enter a cell phone
black hole as I did this weekend in southern Vermont. The first tweet I
got about the game was Kevin Burkhardt’s about Josh Satin being 3-3.
At that point, @Mets had sent out 3 tweets on the game but I’d yet to
get them. Nor could I pull up the SC app on my phone to check it out.
It amazes me that there are still gaps in cell coverage, especially up
in the heavily populated Northeast. Granted, I was in the mountains of
VT, but even in places that had free wi-fi, I found the signal strength
to be weak at best. I guess all this just goes to show you how spoiled
we’ve become and how reliant we are on technology that 10 years ago
(that’s probably a bad guess as I don’t think smart phone apps and
Twitter have even been around that long) didn’t exist.
The other problem to following games this way is when you enter a cell phone
black hole as I did this weekend in southern Vermont. The first tweet I
got about the game was Kevin Burkhardt’s about Josh Satin being 3-3.
At that point, @Mets had sent out 3 tweets on the game but I’d yet to
get them. Nor could I pull up the SC app on my phone to check it out.
It amazes me that there are still gaps in cell coverage, especially up
in the heavily populated Northeast. Granted, I was in the mountains of
VT, but even in places that had free wi-fi, I found the signal strength
to be weak at best. I guess all this just goes to show you how spoiled
we’ve become and how reliant we are on technology that 10 years ago
(that’s probably a bad guess as I don’t think smart phone apps and
Twitter have even been around that long) didn’t exist.
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