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I think it’s great for BB to be active on social media, if done correctly. Personally I don’t think people want to follow the official BuzzerBeater account to hear stories / situations for the user controlling the account. To me, I think the page should be professional and tweet about the game itself and really just the game itself.. look at Twitter pages / facebooks for other games. For the most part, they usually just tweet out news about the game or if somethings happening (Ex: training day, games etc) but never about a personal account. If someone who isn’t on BB stumbles across the BB Twitter, the goal of the Twitter should be to interest that person to make an account on BB. I don’t really think talking about your team is going to do that. I’m not saying you’re doing a bad job, I just think the official page for BB should be run like how other official pages for games/websites are run.

I understand, I just feel that a more professional looking page would be more attractive to get more users. I'm not telling you to change what you do. I'd leave it up to Marin or any other higher-up at BB to tell you how to run it, just giving my viewpoint. Look at NBA2K19's twitter for example. I'm not saying they have a great twitter by any means and I really don't like their game, but their tweets all relate to the general game of 2K. Not many people who find the twitter page are going to care about your cup results for example. If you had a separate twitter for your team, that's a different story. But the official page of BB to me should be purely marketing to get as many new users as possible, and I'm just not sure if that's what the page is optimized to do for now.

I can't say anything about the Facebook as I rarely ever use Facebook. But I'm on Twitter a lot, so I just felt like I should comment here.

As Daniel Okrent who invented Rotisserie Baseball (which is in many ways the foundation from which our "silly little game" is based, though this game owes a great dent as well to stat-o-matic) would say, nothing is more interesting than YOUR fantasy team but nobody wants to hear about YOUR fantasy team.

That being said, I am completely down with our new social media Lord bringing up the fortunes of his team. A proactive social media presence has been long over due.

And the dividends are already being paid, over 300 new users this week alone! Coincidence? I think not! Trust is hitting the hoops based contingent hard, I am a little concerned about what happens after the finals are over. The main thing is to stay active out there.

For sure! Any social media is better than none.