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The event that I chose to do for my live tweeting was National Signing Day for college football. The fact that I love football and that Gators football is my favorite thing about UF factored in to my decision on what to live tweet about. It was an enjoyable experience because the Gators did better in recruiting than many expected. I was also given an excuse to go into Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in between classes (more about this discussed later) which is always a great experience, even if there aren't 90,000 other fans screaming and yelling. One thing that made National Signing day an easy event to tweet about is that information on recruits could be found anywhere. Every sports website had something on each recruit and all of the major sports networks were covering it. This was great because I was able to hear many different viewpoints on the recruits and whether or not each recruit was ready to succeed at the next level. One of my favorite parts of national signing day is where ESPN has coaches and recruits do interviews. This is where fans learn the most about expectations for the coming years.
A difficulty about live tweeting during National Signing Day is that NSD lasts all day and its very easy to miss information on a recruit because new information comes out so often. For example, I had class on NSD so there were some moments when I had to focus on note taking and wasn't able to constantly refresh Twitter or sports website. Luckily, during this time not much happened for the Gators, recruiting wise. Another difficulty was that my phone battery doesn't last all day so I was in danger of running out of battery by late afternoon times. Now onto some specific tweets that I made.
When I look back through my tweets, this picture of the video board in the stadium is my favorite. I consider the stadium to be my favorite part on campus and love that people could go into the stadium and see the gators future players.
Not many of my tweets got retweeted or favorited so my tweets weren't successful in that regard.
This tweet was successful because one of my followers favorited it. The purpose of the tweet was to show that even with a good recruiting class this year there was still room to improve. The gators didn't use up all of their scholarships so next years class will be even better because it will have more scholarships to give recruits.
This tweet was important because many experts expected the gators to have a poor recruiting class after a second straight below average season. Instead, the gators reeled in two 5* prospects, one of which was CeCe Jefferson. This commitment ensured that the gators would surpass expectations. This also showed how good of a recruiter Jim Mcelwain is and that he will be able to do so much more with a full year of recruiting next season.
For one tweet, I took a screenshot of the rankings. I enjoyed this tweet because it showed how far up the rankings the gators moved up on national signing day (44 spots).
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