Twitter is getting the BANT stick all over the NFL

[Kurb]

Seems teams are banning players from Tweeteringing (wtfever it is) while at camp.

SOME are going so far as to ban Media from Tweeterianing as well.

ESPN is cracking down on their reporters tweeting opinions.

Adam_Schefter Giants were ultra Twitter friendly. Others? Not so much. Nine teams have banned practice tweets: Atl, Buf, Cin, Ind, KC, NE, NO, StL, Sea

Adam_Schefter Add Detroit to list of NFL teams that ban media from twittering from practice. That's 10 teams all together. That's unnecessary something.

It's very interesting to see how this will play out.

While it's only 120 letters or so, some decent info can flow out of camp.

Look how fast Kemo's injury was announced.

If a team wanted to keep something under wraps, it would be next to impossible right now.

[Fireball77]

I thought that there was an NFL edict stating no live blogging from practices? Wouldn't Tweeting seem to follow that policy? I do think it was silly of SD to fine Cromartie for whining about the food. I would fine guys for putting out injury type info other than what was publicly released by the team or talking about team policies or such (be it blog or twitter), but not something petty like that.

[scpanther22]

ESPN is doing it because they want people to go there site instead of twitter for breaking news.

[Kurb]

If ESPN would follow more than Plaxico/Vick/how great Big Roofie Ben is and such more people might read.

[Snake]

Maybe it will work to a teams advantage as we progress. John Fox can come up with some disinformation about smith or Peppers being hurt and then Bam! They are on the field for the game. the FF people would hate this though.

[wes19d]

I think the Cromartie fine was a little excessive. If tweeting is getting in the way with camp then it needs to go.

[Kurb]

Adam_SchefterNot sure if it's allowed in Foxboro, but standing on practice field as Patriots walk out for their first work of the day. And I'm tweeting

:patriot:

[Scrumtrilescent]

Like all other technical gobbledegook, you just gotta be careful because we all know once it's out, it's out...THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID...anyway, I think I like Fox's philosophy on all of this.

[TylerDurden]

Not just the NFL, it's causing problems everywhere... J.R. Smith of the Nuggets:

http://www.denverpost.com/nuggets/ci_12986511

[Scrumtrilescent]

:patriot:

How would they really know he's tweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeting anyway until they see it on his page? He could just be texting his wife to shut up and cook the damn dinner or making a memo to get that weird rash checked out.

[Kurb]

Probably an intern doing searches for Pats realted stuff on Twitter.

#pats

# brady

# foxboro

and poo like that.

[Jangler]

Oh Noes! What will Nannerpuss do now!?

[Fireball77]

Probably an intern doing searches for Pats realted stuff on Twitter.

#pats

# brady

# foxboro

and poo like that.

Yeah they don't need video dudes anymore. Gotta find something for those peeps to do!

To Inimicus: Pats routinely limit reporters access to their practices in preseason and reg season. They are famous for allowing reporters to see only lame chit like stretching as their allotted portion.

[Skew]

Yeah they don't need video dudes anymore. Gotta find something for those peeps to do!

To Inimicus: Pats routinely limit reporters access to their practices in preseason and reg season. They are famous for allowing reporters to see only lame chit like stretching as their allotted portion.

That's cheating!

j/k

I think they can ban players from tweeting during working hours (practices, meetings) and discussing actual team news.

But they can't ban reporters from tweeting (except during live games I think.)