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Travis Ford vs. Twitter
Published: 10/22/2010 9:26 PM
Last Modified: 10/22/2010 9:34 PM

Many Oklahoma State basketball players have Twitter accounts. Coach Travis Ford was asked if he follows his players on Twitter.

Said Ford, “Nope. Unless I need to. Unless I hear about something.”

Then Ford said he is “not big on this Twitter. I have even thought about eliminating it.”

Consider that Ford himself has a Twitter account, sort of. He said one of his staff members is responsible.

“I have never twitted once in my life and he signed me up for it,” Ford said. “I don’t know how many followers I have. Is there any way to find out? I get about 20 a day, people following me. But they are wasting their time because I don’t have time to do all that. I don’t think people really care what I’m doing.”

Ford has 1,149 followers. His last tweet came in May of 2009 and presumably was ghost-written.

Senior forward Marshall Moses is a frequent poster on Twitter. When that subject was broached, Ford said, “I don’t know what good it does, really. If people want to know what Marshall is doing, they can call and ask me. I’ll tell them what he is doing. We don’t need Twitter. I will just tell them here’s what Marshall is doing.”

Moses was sitting next to Ford when the coach said it. Moses said he likes to tweet during idle time.

“What do you like about it?” Ford asked.

Moses said he communicates with friends.

“But you are not communicating with them,” Ford said. “You are just telling them what you are doing. They are not responding back to you.”

Moses informed Ford that Twitter followers can communicate by retweeting or sending direct messages. And Ford still talked about a possible Twitter ban. It may happen the first time players give him excuse to do it.



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