Let’s links that deal with ESPN’s new Twitter Policy as blogs and mainstream media have picked up the story. Let’s get to them.
CNBC’s Darren Rovell says he doesn’t have a problem with ESPN wanting to restrict its reporters and anchors from over-Tweeting.
Neil Best from Newsday agrees with ESPN wanting to keep its talent on target when it comes to Twitter and also hears from ESPN’s Bill Simmons. We’ll have more from Neil on other issues later.
Dan Levy from On The DL talks with Sporting News editor Chris Littman.
In the Sporting News, Dan looks at the Twitter policies handed down by ESPN and the NFL.
Bob Kravitz of the Indianapolis Star talks about several NFL teams banning the media from Live Tweeting at practices.
The NFL Chick also chimes in.
Keith Thibeault of the Sports Media Journal feels the ESPN Twitter policy is insurance for the media behemoth.
Christopher Byrne of the Eye on Sports Media says ESPN is getting smart with social networking.
Dan Shanoff agrees with the new policy.
Patrick Gordon over at the FanIQ blog thinks the new ESPN Twitter policy might be a good thing.
Maury Brown at the Biz of Baseball says the new policy bears watching.
The Arena blog found some reactions from various ESPN personalities to the Twitter policy .. on Twitter, of course.
Of course, with any Twitter account, you get a fake one as well, and the Arena found the FakeESPN.
John Daly from the Daly Planet motorsports blog says the new ESPN Twitter policy could hurt the network’s NASCAR coverage.
Colby Hall from Mediaite culls together various blog reports on the story.
We’ll have more links about this down the line. It’s time to get to other media stories and we’ll do that in a separate post.
