Michigan Twitter Follows
I know long ago in the dark years of MGoBlog 2.0 there was a sidebar with a list of worthy twitter follows and other blogs. Does anyone have a list of the best people to follow re Michigan Sports? Not just reporters or bloggers but people like Ant Wright too who have a connection to Michigan sports and are entertaining? I also think a good crowdsourced list would be worthy to keep under Useful Stuff or stickied somewhere.
Thanks!
Twitter is poison. Drama, hot takes, fake information fly everywhere.
Social Media in a nutshell
Fucking boomers....lol
Mgoblog comment board in a nutshell
Follow the right people and I don't think most will view it that way, and you'll see it's a valuable tool especially for certain sub-cultures (sports gambling, golf, ect) that you'll find great info . I never understand people that always say this and people agree with it.
But yes, if you're an athlete or very famous celebrity, and you read the replies to your tweets or your "@'s" then yes, then you're right, you'll probably see the ugly side of twitter. For instance, I don't know what Zach Gentry was expecting to find right after he went on twitter right after the OSU game (to clarify, I don't condone idiots that tweeted at him, but my point is, there's going to be some real bad eggs that are going to send nasty stuff his way)
"Idiots, bad eggs"
Kinda like some mgobloggers.
watch it there zeke, i resemble that remark.
Totally agree. It takes time and experience to curate your feed to your liking. It took a lot of trial and error to filter out the accounts that insist on wailing about politics. For me, Twitter is nothing but sports and comedy. It's a constant source of on-topic entertainment.
I think Twitter is an inherently useful tool. Get a quick update without having to read through an entire article to get the information I want.
But you are correct in that there is a LOT of misinformation out there. The blessing of social media is also a curse: everyone has a voice. And not everyone's voice should be heard. So I don't blame the instrument itself. Twitter is just a medium for people to voice their thoughts and opinions. Its the idiots who get on Twitter and intentionally spread lies is who give it a bad name.
"worthy Twitter follows" and "Ant Wright" don't belong in the same paragraph or even the same universe.
I may sound foolish for asking this, but who is Ant Wright? I have Twitter and follow the Sam Webb type people, but not sure I’ve come across this guy.
Anthony Wright, former M basketball player. A pretty good follow for his takes on various Michigan athletic issues or topics relating to basketball and football. He stands on his opinion, whether unpopular or not, which often doesn't sit well with people who assume former Michigan athletes should just fall in line.
He's a good follow. I don't always agree with his takes, but he seems like a good dude and is usually fairly entertaining.
ant wright seems to not mind yoder, which automatically invalidates wright's opinions for me.
Ditto.
Yoder should be shunned, Ant doesn't get that
Anthony Wright, former Michigan basketball player from 2006-2010
I find Scott Bell to be very entertaining.
To me, here's what makes his account gold now - the fact that Scott's trolling has become so good that some in MSU twitter launch preemptive strikes against him at the mere mention of anything that might reside in East Lansing.
I still follow him, but I find the trolling shtick kind of annoying. I can see a future in which I unfollow/mute him, because all he does is stir the pot.
He Tweets like Adam Dunn hit. Because he's trying to knock everything out of the park, there are a decent number of strikeouts, but the home runs are prodigious and worth being around for
Die.
James Yoder, ShawnLMartin, Greggggggggggggggggg Henson, Ace Williams. You know, all the top minds.
Obviously sarcastic for those who don't know who those guys are.
Used to follow Henson but all that guy does is argue, argue , argue 24/7 about everything.
Twitter gives me a headache. Not the content, more like the format, staring at my phone. Clicking tags. It's too much.
Dylan Burkhardt (umhoops)
Brice Marich, Steve Lorenz, Sam Webb (247)
Touch The Banner (Magnus on this site)
Evan Petzold, Isaiah Hole (wolverineswire, Petzold also covers CMU since he's a student there)
Adam Ghabour (used to be Rivals. Not sure now but he's very Michigan Football focused)
Scott Bell (Michigan favoring troll)
Endless motor (mattD on this site. Includes general basketball stuff that's not just Michigan related)
This is an excellent list OP. Pretty much everybody I follow as well.
Oddly enough MgoBlog is NOT a good follow IMO. Brian rarely (if ever) posts anything other than soccer updates and the occasionally something regarding AA politics. I'm surprised they arent more aggressive with the medium as you can certainly draw people to your site through content links.
He posts a link to every new MgoBlog post. Not sure what else he can do, he isn't an insider that can post source info. It seems he uses the twits for MGoBlog purposes and to throw out occasional opinions on various topics. I guess he could troll MSU and OSU a little more, that would be fun. But Scott Bell pretty much has a Monopoly on the space in their collective heads.
He'll usually post something during games. He puts up thoughts at halftime of football games. But nothing as voluminous as others.
@jdue51 is a former player whose analysis is excellent. Some real time stuff, and his Sunday morning game wraps are great.
Oh man I cant believe I didnt recommend @Jdue51 (known around these parts as "ReadYourGuard" for a follow. Steven is spot on in his recommendation there and he's correct - he breaks down the game on Sunday via twitter basically one big play at a time. He's a great guy too.
I've never understood why Brian litters his timeline with that crap. Nobody is following @MGoBlog to get the latest on Ann Arbor zoning or US Soccer. Twitter makes it so simple to toggle between two accounts, just make another one for your political bitching and leave @MGoBlog for Michigan posts and updates.
Like Scott Bell. Has one account for his Dallas newspaper day job stuff that none of us give a shit about, and then his Michigan sports trolling account that none of his Dallas readers give a shit about. Can you imagine if he combined the two? How irritating would that be for both of his completely unrelated groups of followers? Well, that's @MGoBlog.
Thank you for being the only person to actually help haha
I get it some of you dont like twitter, I got it the first time. We dont need 5 different variations of "social media bad"
well how many variations do you need then?
The ones in bold are among my favorites
@internetraj
@orion_sang
@justcoverblog
@StephenToski
@msutrash1
@Thee_Matty_D
@MichaelSpathITH
@Misopogon
@aeschnepp
@Bry_Mac
@TouchTheBanner
@MGoFish
@MaizenBrew
@_ZachShaw
@sbell021
@DrSap4UM
@ByAZuniga
@TremendousUM
@michiganinsider
@nickbaumgardner
@mgoblog
@CoachJim4UM
@SamWebb77
@Johnubacon
Why am I not emboldened?!?!?!?!
@mangus, there you go
/s
@Mangus doesn't lead to cogent recruiting updates but instead an existential debate about whether or not a man can also be a Gus.
Thank you!
Internet Raj needs to be mentioned here.
The founder of Bucket List Trutherism.
You're not going to be that guy.
You've already been that guy for a long time.
Speaking of twitter....
When is the post none of us Michigan fans are going to like planned for TTB? Your teaser the other day has me speculating on the content.
I thought it was his evaluation of Cade McNamara. He was finally given a score on his website, and it's pretty low - 65, which is considered "average starter in big ten; little NFL draft potential". By comparison, every other Harbaugh recruited QB has been in the 80/90s.
You are correct. I don't anticipate McNamara's career panning out as nicely as many desire.
Well I'll be this guy:
Logged in just to downvote.
;)
Did you actually devote your life to Michigan athletics?
Since nobody has said it yet, Chris Balas (@Balas_Wolverine) - and yes he can be kind of a wanker sometimes in general, but I think he's a must follow if you're a UofM news junkie.
Also, Dave Portney .... I kid , I kid