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Baseball Fans Use Social Media As A Platform To Voice Their Views

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The social media is playing a big role among the baseball fans&period; They are using it as a platform to vent out their opinions and provide feedback on various teams&period; The companies of all sizes are seeing it as an opportunity to make huge investment in building hyper connected social media operation centers&period; The fans on the other hand are hurdling comments at each other prior to the game of Boston Red Sox and Tampa Rays&comma; next week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-745" title&equals;"Baseball Fans Use Social Media As A Platform To Voice Their Views" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;incrediblemag&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2013&sol;09&sol;Baseball-Fans-Use-Social-Media-As-A-Platform-To-Voice-Their-Views&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Baseball Fans Use Social Media As A Platform To Voice Their Views" width&equals;"571" height&equals;"373" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Chief executive officer of Major League Baseball’s Advanced Media L&period;P unit&comma; Bob Bowman accepts the fact that the social media is the latest hang out where the youth are prone to visit&period; They may not be spending too much right now but are expected to do so soon&period;  He adds in that the social networking site Twitter is so popular because the comments made there are authentic and spontaneous&period; The upcoming battle between the Red Sox and the Rays is now receiving the limelight&period; The word battle before and after the game in not an uncommon thing&comma; especially after the July game&period; This is encouraging the Twitter generation to join the baseball fan club&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Some companies plan to take their business venture a step ahead by grabbing in the prospect&period; A Seattle based public relation officer and creator of Geek Giant blog comments that the social networking site is all about taking a chance on the present momentum&period; Using the prospect&comma; different sites are continuously revamping themselves to respond to the need&period; Baseball two years back employed a dozen people to work in the social media command center located in Manhattan&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Many companies are trying to cash in from the situation by redesigning their business plan&period; The plan is to be very quick and talented in setting up the trend&period; Besides&comma; the company needs to locate the right kind of audience&period; It is only by identifying the right kind of users that the company can devise the ways to cater to their need&period; In addition to that&comma; develop a fan base&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Bob Bowman comments that approximately 1000 social content are managed daily on the team&period; However&comma; the matter of concern is finding the right voice for real time social media&period; Sports marketing consultant Amy Martin of Digital Royalty comments that a low-level individual can be the voice of the brand but it can be inappropriate&period; It is not just the fans that tweet but also the clubs&period; Bryce Harper of Washington Nationals was the target of the Atlanta Braves when a brush-back pitch hit him&period; The authority of Atlanta Braves did not take this with a good humor&period; He criticized them in the site&period; However according to the report the Braves are considered to be a favorite&period; The Washington Nationals tweeted nearly 3500 times and re-tweeted about 7200 times&period; Most teams have special recruitments exclusively for this purpose&period; San Francisco Giants have three staff members looking after the Twitter account during the games&period; They have almost 488&comma;000 followers during the games&period; The New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies have 980&comma;000 and 780&comma;000 followers respectively&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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