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Twitter / Ric Bucher: The hammer just came down, ...
twitter.com - 8/5/2009
Twitter / Ric Bucher: The hammer just came down, ...
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Loader Twitter.com Login Join Twitter! The hammer just came down, tweeps: ESPN memo prohibiting tweeting info unless it serves ESPN. Kinda figured this was coming. Not sure what this means but about 10 hours ago from txt RicBucher Ric Bucher Footer 2009 Twitter About Us Contact Blog ...
Hardline Twitter Memo Makes ESPN Employees Hilariously Paranoid [Media Meltdowns]
deadspin.com - 8/5/2009
Hardline Twitter Memo Makes ESPN Employees Hilariously Paranoid [Media Meltdowns]
— deadspin.com — ESPN NBA writer Ric Bucher set the World Wide Leader's legion of writers, editors, and on-air personalities... with raging Twitter habits into a collective shit-tizzy with one of his updates . Now, a revolution is afoot! Not really. Here's what Bucher ... (more) Hardline Twitter Memo Makes ESPN Employees Hilariously ...

Comments vote down Sports Media Watch found this 8/5/2009found this
ESPN prohibits employees from tweeting info "unless it serves ESPN"
tonyblogs.net - 8/4/2009
ESPN prohibits employees from tweeting info "unless it serves ESPN"
— tonyblogs.net — ESPN NBA reporter Ric Bucher tweeted earlier today that ESPN has prohibited tweeting unless it serves the... network in some way. In two tweets, Bucher said : "The hammer just came down, tweeps: ESPN memo prohibiting tweeting info unless it serves ESPN. Kinda figured this was coming. Not sure ... (more) ESPN prohibits employees from tweeting info "unless it ...

Comments vote down tdine05 tdine05 posted 8/4/2009posted this
ESPN Responds to Criticism and Publishes Social Media Policy
mashable.com - 8/5/2009
ESPN Responds to Criticism and Publishes Social Media Policy
— mashable.com — Twitter is a strange animal. One man can tweet about an official change in ESPN’s Twitter policy,... and the world can respond. In fact, that’s what happened earlier today when we reported on Ric Bucher’s tweet that ESPN was ... (more) ESPN Responds to Criticism and Publishes Social Media Policy

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nba musings:  don’t ruin twitter!

The Biz of Baseball :: Business of Sports Network:  ESPN Says, Tweet, But Only If It Serves ESPN

The Arena:  ESPN’s Social Media Policy: The Disingenuous Tweet and Hiding the Ball

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don’t ruin twitter!
nba musings — ... THAT? By the end of the day *poof* J.R.’s Twitter is dead as disco. This royally frosts my cupcakes. Why? Because J.R. Smith is was priceless on Twitter. Simply priceless. If I had known this debacle was coming down today I would have at least taken a commemorative screen shot of his page or something. Instead, I’m stuck with this empty J.R.less existence. Not cool, Denver Post. Not cool. Then, as Ric Bucher (@RicBucher) so eloquently put it, ESPN dropped the hammer. The hammer being a memo to their employees – ...

ESPN Says, Tweet, But Only If It Serves ESPN
The Biz of Baseball :: Business of Sports Network — ... Ric Bucher, the NBA analyst for ESPN, and ESPN.com, who is also a senior writer for ESPN the Magazine, broke the news of the memo on, what else? Twitter. ...

ESPN’s Social Media Policy: The Disingenuous Tweet and Hiding the Ball
The Arena — ... Yet this policy was revealed to the world through Ric Bucher. It was blown up on the Internet by successive posts at The Big Lead and Deadspin. It trended as a topic on Twitter last night, beating out the release of two American journalists from North Korea, before ESPN mentioned this on air today. In framing the tweet with the SportsCenter account’s URL and the traditional SportsCenter graphics, ESPN is only trying to hide that this spun out of control in ways they did not anticipate and did not respond to either quickly or ...

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