12-13-2022, 12:00 AM
The question is how much that is just a common platform for communication between recruits, coaches, and recruiting sites, but otherwise kind of useless in the day-to-day impact. When I went to check Twitter for player reaction to Shaw's resignation, many players didn't comment whatsoever, which was entirely consistent with their (lack of) twitter presence. Some of them basically didn't have any tweets during their time post-commitment, or only had tweets related to congratulating their younger high school classmates on their own commitments.
Bottom line is that for many college football players, Twitter is a vestige of an earlier era, an archaic bit of legacy social media they use because its fit for purpose, but not because they otherwise are on it (much like they might use Facebook to communicate with Grandma and Grandpa). Seems a bit like when you learn that some legacy system (like unemployment) was written in Cobol and nobody has bothered to come up with a more modern system because of costs of transitioning.
Note, I do think a fair number of recruits and coaches dual use twitter and instagram, or use TikTok and will embed their TikTok videos in their tweets.
BC
Bottom line is that for many college football players, Twitter is a vestige of an earlier era, an archaic bit of legacy social media they use because its fit for purpose, but not because they otherwise are on it (much like they might use Facebook to communicate with Grandma and Grandpa). Seems a bit like when you learn that some legacy system (like unemployment) was written in Cobol and nobody has bothered to come up with a more modern system because of costs of transitioning.
Note, I do think a fair number of recruits and coaches dual use twitter and instagram, or use TikTok and will embed their TikTok videos in their tweets.
BC