Following cycling on Twitter
In the last week I have somehow gotten addicted to Twitter. I had heard about it before but for some reason went there after hearing several times about Lance Armstrong using it. I have since found that many of the professional cyclists use it. Lance’s coach Chris Carmichael, team director Johan Bruyneel, former team mates George Hincapie and Dave Zabriskie, Giro winner Ivan Basso, and Garmin team members Tom Danielson and Christian Vandevelde. Right now I’m monitoring the Tour Down Under where Lance is racing where they are giving race updates, the Tour de France has one too but not sure yet how they use it. They will occasionally send “tweets” throughout the day of where they are or what they are doing, and will sometimes upload a picture of something they are doing or just saw. You can read them online or have them sent directly to your cell phone. Last week Lance Armstrong uploaded a picture, while riding his bike training, of his handlebars asking if his “twitteratti” prefered black or yellow brake hood covers and had everyone vote. Black one so he’s racing this week with black hood covers as voted by 5855 of us. Again I ask you what other professional sport allows its fans this much, now instant, access to it’s atheletes?
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