HN Feedback: Startup Idea - Sports Twitter Network

http://www.sportytweets.com

by dentonbros • 18 years ago

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This is a network of twitter accounts I've created. I'm looking for input and advice on the idea. The twitter accounts are about 1 month old, and already have about 3000 followers across the network, and growing fast, every day.

shafqat• 18 years ago

I like the concept. I don't think I would ever visit the website again (nothing appealing there). But I did follow for the Titans NFL twitter account. That's a real service and will definately add value, especially if you can aggregate from non-traditional news sources.

Not sure how you can monetize the twitter feed aspects. Neat idea though. Good luck!

mbleigh• 18 years ago

See also: http://ingamenow.com/

jon_dahl• 18 years ago

And http://fanchatter.com :)

kyro• 18 years ago

I'd like to see international soccer scores/news.

look_lookatme• 18 years ago

I was tossing this around in earnest with a group of friends late last winter. We essentially were planning what something that heavily resembled ingamenow... now.

Now that someone realized the idea, I'm kind of glad we didn't invest much time in it...

dentonbros• 18 years ago

Thanks everyone for the comments. If you'd like, please follow your favorite sports team, and feel free to provide me feedback via our site.

Are there too many feeds? Does the account update too often or not enough? Are we missing vital feeds?

Thanks! Andy

pxlpshr• 18 years ago

You may get into a bit of trouble using all those logo marks without permission. They are huge sticklers on that stuff.

larrykubin• 18 years ago

Nice. I was thinking about a similar idea recently (judging from the other sites that have been posted, many have had this idea). I wanted to focus on specific games though. If you go to a forum for a college football team, such as buckeyeplanet.com, hornfans.com, or texags.com, you will notice that for each game they create a "Game Thread". I wanted to build a system for gamethreads, since using phpBB, vBulletin, and other forum software doesn't seem to be the best solution for a series of one sentence commentaries on what is happening in the game. If you could nail down this feature and promote it on message boards for each team, I'm sure people would use it. I think many message boards have trouble managing the volume of traffic and small posts on game day. Good work!

HN Feedback: Startup Idea - Sports Twitter Network

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