BleacherBabble.com creates an outlet for Sports Commentator Tweeters, (AKA Sports Commentweeters™)

It only takes a few minutes to set your phone up with the ability to send a text message Twitter, which is then broadcast by BleacherBabble.com

Sports enthusiasts can watch Bleacher Babblers but to play along you just enter tweets through your Twitter account.  Twitter and BleacherBabble.com are free to consumers.

"Why We Tweet?" by Jack Welch, former CEO for GE

"...Every time he opined about the Red Sox or Celtics, dozens of sports enthusiasts opined back..."

Bleacher Blabbing Babblers (Not to be confused with Bleacher Babbling Blabbers) now have a fun way to take spectator sports to a whole new level.

What's involved in getting set up in a bar?

Flat monitors that connect to a computer and an internet connection are all that's needed to get going.

Profanity Filter

We've compiled some of the most common profanity that Sports Commentweeters™ may use and replace those words with [BLEEP] instead.

We don't publicize the profanity filter to patrons. As more creative words come up, we'll add to the list. Send us any additional new profanity you may come across: Add Words to Profanity Filter

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Terminology all the Kids Understand

Twitter is not something everybody is familiar with so we recommend the bar employees become familiar with Twitter. Brand new to Twitter? Click here for a video to get you started.

Tweets

These are the postings (Twitter calls them updates) Tweeps make to their account, that we query with our hashtag searches.

Tweeps

This is an endearing term for Twitter user that make tweets.

Hashtags:

Hashtags (or tags as we call them) are words that are queried in Twitter, seaching the content of all messages. Tags have the "#" sign placed in front of them. (e.g. #Cubs OR #Royals)

There is some Boolean Logic in the format to seach for multiple Hashtags, like in the example. (Use all caps for the word "OR" and then the next Hashtag.)

Don't worry, we provide those tags for you just by clicking on the team you want to follow. Some events will have multiple tags that BleacherBabble follows, (e.g. the All Star game had #AllStar OR #StLAllStar OR #AllStarGame)

 

Here's an example of a couple tweets using the tag "Allstar" and an @Reply to another Tweep.

Followers:

Some celebrities have thousand (or millions) of followers. Twitter's reputation has been the butt of many jokes by the content of the tweets most will post:

 

Click here to see Conan O'Brien's hilarious Twitter Tracker, quoting Ashton Kucher, "Going to the grocery store. Need some fixin's for a salad.") We don't want Tweets like that.

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@Replies

An @reply is a public message sent from one person to another, distinguished from normal updates by the @username prefix. If you say something worthy, you may have somebody reply to you. If their reply is on the BleacherBabble screen (in other words a tag was included) it could say something like:

It's nice for the ego to get @replies. It could turn into something more fruitful, or some fun banter about a game.

Retweets ("RT" in a message)

This isn't an official Twitter command or feature, but people add RT somewhere in a tweet to indicate that part of their tweet includes something they're re-posting. The ultimate form of a Sports Commentweeter's™ compliment is to be retweeted:

Hyperlinks Not Allowed on BleacherBabble.com

BleacherBabble is designed for a display-only screen so there is no use for hyperlinks. If you include "http:" in your message, we won't show any of that posted message.

If your message isn't showing up on the screen, you either aren't using the correct tag or you included a link preceded by the "http:/" text.

Trending Topics

Twitter uses some formula (I'm assuming it's quantity) to post trending topics on Twitter.com. When this happens, (It happened with #AllStarGame) two things follow thereafter;

(1) Thousands (Millions when Michael Jackson died) of Tweets follow suit on the subject.

(2) Then Porno-Pedaling (and other obnoxious) Tweeps begin spamming with Tweets that have nothing to do with the topic at hand.

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We have preventative alternatives in mind and will update you when they are available.

Sports CommenTweeter's™ Tweet Content

There is no desire, or interest in having play-by-play tweets that would replace watching a game or event. We want color commentary, and the funnier or more insightful the better:

Coming Soon? You may become an official Sports Commentweeter™

RSS Feed

RSS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia says, [" RSS feeds can be read using software called an "RSS reader", "feed reader"] This is what BleacherBabble.com is using. We are not affiliated with Twitter and do not create any content outside of Twitter itself.

Spread the Word! Google found us! That's good, right?

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Stephen M. Wigg
Webmaster, Sports Commentweeter™ & Chief Bleacher Babbling Blabber @ BleacherBabble.com

(Twitter name: StephenWigg)