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Cool idea. I'm a diehard Washington Wizards fan (sad, I know) and tend to unfollow a lot of players in favor of reports/beat writers/bloggers. The tweets are just more substantive for basketball junkies. A couple of random thoughts:
1) Remove the directed tweets -- i.e. "@user blah blah blah"
2) Beat writers/bloggers act as a filter and tend to retweet interesting player tweets anyway
3) It'd be awesome to see a real-time, in-game twitter dashboard like how you're displaying things now, but with those bloggers/reporters. It can be hard to keep track of it all on a single-line twitter feed... maybe a tweet that gets a lot of "action" somehow (retweets, replies, not sure how you'd measure it) could be displayed more prominently.
I'll definitely back up the desire to see feeds of reporters and bloggers rather than, or in addition to, players.
For example, I'm a Cavs fan. Big news right now is the Cavs' search for a new head coach. I'm much more interested in that than I am C.J. Miles' desire to get "custom car stuff" done, which is what his last tweet was about :) But players aren't going to be tweeting about the coaching search, most likely.
By jelled 2013-04-2223:45 You may be interested in checking out my startup which organizes sports journalists tweets by league and team. http://www.fancloud.com/nba/cavaliers
+1 for being a tortured Wizards fan
+1 for the comments above (add @moneymetalcakes!)
Also, thank you for making software for sports fans. The stuff from the big media companies is freaking terrible. Let me know if you'd like to participate in a future Sports Hack Day:
By billcurt 2013-04-2220:03 That sports hack day looks cool, ping me on twitter when you have the next one scheduled!
By billcurt 2013-04-2217:48 Great insight, love hearing this stuff from active sports followers. Yeah I'll remove those @user posts, good call.
The real-time stuff, totally. That stuff's really exciting to think about (and build!). Anything to connect people better with their teams.
By noname123 2013-04-2222:34 They have a pretty good backcourt with Beal and Wall. If they can unload the attractive expiring massive contract of Okafor and Nene via trades, they can rebuild the team.
The Wizards always had potential from having Webber and Ben Wallace prior to their prime; then to having Michael Jordan in come back and then to Agent Zero.
The problem was bad luck with Arenas injury, bad Kwame Brown pick.
I really like this! Admittedly, I am not a roundball enthusiast and know little of the sport, so take my 2-cents for what they are worth.
I've clicked around a bit, just to get a feel for the app, and it seems really nice. I love the transitions when selecting a team - very nice.. I also really like how resizing and scaling is handled - it seems that lot of effort was put into how the layout and contents shift around on resize and scale... Very nice.
One small potential enhancement (solely aesthetics) would be to apply the same UI transition behavior when clicking the site logo so that it smoothly transitions back to home just as it does when selecting a team.
In any case, Kudos! Nice looking site - I am sharing this out to my non-HN, pro-basketball, Twitter using friends!
By billcurt 2013-04-2218:48 Hey thanks for the tip, noted. Glad you enjoy it!
I actually started doing something similar to follow my own teams (thought someday I'd expand but just never have). Anyhow, one thing we've found is that player tweets are generally worthless and as others have already noted the bloggers/writers and just conversational tweets surrounding teams are often more informative.
Here is my page (which is not near as nice as yours but I really just built it for me to follow news regarding my Chiefs!):
By billcurt 2013-04-2220:15 I've heard this comment from a number of people, thanks for posting. I agree, an aggregate of bloggers/writer alongside player tweets would be a nice added value, thinkin' on it.
