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It’s a little ironic that I am writing this article on a day when Twitter was hacked into and shut down for a couple hours this morning. Besides from the social media giant’s slight hiccup this morning, there is no question that Twitter has revolutionized communication, and maybe somewhat unexpectedly, revolutionized sports communication. We follow athletes and they tell us how practice went or what they want to eat for breakfast. Maybe not that interesting to some, but for those who idolize these men and women, this is an amazing insight into some superstar’s lives.

Until I started this site, I was a Twitter critic. I thought that it was simply one aspect of Facebook (status), which some find to be Facebook’s most annoying feature. This is somewhat true, were I to follow a bunch of random people on Twitter I would undoubtedly be bored out of my mind. But instead I decided to follow only a few sports fans, some bloggers, some athletes, and mostly sports reporters. And boy did this pay off.

On the morning of the trade deadline I checked headlines on the usual sites, scanned over my Google reader and wrote an article that morning without any idea of the sort of exhilaration I would be facing in mere hours. Sure I was excited for the trades to go down, but I didn’t quite realize exactly how close to the action I was going to be.