The Why and the How Twitter Makes Sports so Much Better

May 23, 2014; St. Petersburg, FL, USA; Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz (34) looks at a phone as he was in the batting cage hitting prior to the game against the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports

There are plenty of great duos in the world but the best duo of the new millennium could be the combo of Twitter and sports.

Who wants a website where you post what you are doing every second of every minute of every day? That’s what a lot of us thought when we first discovered Twitter. And then we discovered that that’s not what Twitter is for at all.

Nowadays Twitter is used for us to catalogue our own thoughts, but also as a tool for breaking news, social media campaigns, and sharing things that we think should be seen by others. Twitter feeds are showcased on TV news programs as part of their live reporting, and tweets by prominent figures in our society are aired as serious commentary into the situation at hand.

Twitter has become a major element in almost every single industry today, and especially so in the world of sports.

As long as you have a Twitter account and your computer or smartphone is by your side during a game, you can become a commentator and an analyst. The fact that Twitter allows anyone and everyone to sound off can be as ridiculous as it is exciting.

The amount of useless, annoying tweets that fans generate probably triple the amount of useless, annoying fans you may actually experience if you go to a game. But the strong relationship between Twitter and sports has undeniably expanded how we experience it, ultimately for the better.

The following reasons why Twitter has made sports better may not be what you expect.

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