They've dropped it for some reason, but the idea has legs.
Regarding your site:
- The graphic design needs a lot of work, but the functionality is there
- The title, live sports streaming on Twitter, isn't really accurate. People will expect video
- You've got to get tweetthegame.com or choose a new URL. Can't use an URL that requires an explanation, e.g. "There's only one t between 'tweet' and 'the', so t-w-e-e-t-h-e-g-a-m-e-.com"
Rule of thumb: if you can't say it on the radio without explaining it, get a new URL.
One of the things we noticed was that just the name (#lakers for example) misses a lot of tweets. You can look at the source JS for Twitter Bowl, but we ended up using "pittsburgh", "steelers", "roethlisberger", "tomlin", "polamalu", etc. We were able to catch a lot more relevant tweets at the time.
i can't help but get a strange feeling for sites that include that //bin.clearspring.com/at/v1/button1.swf flash script, which does nothing except tracking users for clearspring...
they had the widget available, we assumed it was okay to embed -- since that what widgets are for :) It was a good way around the copyright issue of using the Super Bowl logo, too
Yeah - the legal issues surrounding the live-blogging of spots games (or even making a blog post about a game while it's going on) are unclear.
In this case, though, it seems that the site is just a way of showing a pair of #search results side-by-side, without any organization (or original reporting) behind it - so that shouldn't apply.
They've dropped it for some reason, but the idea has legs.
Regarding your site:
- The graphic design needs a lot of work, but the functionality is there
- The title, live sports streaming on Twitter, isn't really accurate. People will expect video
- You've got to get tweetthegame.com or choose a new URL. Can't use an URL that requires an explanation, e.g. "There's only one t between 'tweet' and 'the', so t-w-e-e-t-h-e-g-a-m-e-.com"
Rule of thumb: if you can't say it on the radio without explaining it, get a new URL.