Facebook and Twitter
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:09 pm
I maintain a fan page on facebook and also a page on twitter for a college baseball team. I post updates each 1/2 inning for each batter with a short description of what took place and a line score.
I noticed that 1/2 inning line scores are in the works for the next update. I have been manually posting this to facebook each 1/2 inning for each game and it takes quite a while.
Here is what I would like to do on my iPhone: I would like to use iScore to keep track of the game and have it post status updates to the facebook fan page each 1/2 inning with a batter-by-batter update as well as a line score and the current score with each post.
For example: Top 1: Duren singles through the left side, Belza doubles to RCF, David sac-fly to LF scores Duren (1 out), Green grounds to 2B 4-3 (2 out), Belza to 3B, Ginther lines to 1B unassisted. 1 R 2 H 0 E, Belza left at 3B. Cowboys lead 1-0.
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Top 7: (James relieves Osbourne) (Chambers PH for Uribe) Chambers HR to RF...
Formatting can be cleaned up and this is just a made up example, but this would greatly improve the updates I am able to provide. Perhaps the status updates could be configured for "X number of innings"; every 1/2 inning, every inning, every 3 innings, final score. Customization of what information gets posted could be added as well: just a 1/2 inning line score, batter-by-batter, substitution updates, the works, etc.
Perhaps a facebook application could be created to also allow live game tracking on a fan page or something similar to bring iscorecast to facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/cowboybaseball" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.twitter.com/cowboybaseball" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I noticed that 1/2 inning line scores are in the works for the next update. I have been manually posting this to facebook each 1/2 inning for each game and it takes quite a while.
Here is what I would like to do on my iPhone: I would like to use iScore to keep track of the game and have it post status updates to the facebook fan page each 1/2 inning with a batter-by-batter update as well as a line score and the current score with each post.
For example: Top 1: Duren singles through the left side, Belza doubles to RCF, David sac-fly to LF scores Duren (1 out), Green grounds to 2B 4-3 (2 out), Belza to 3B, Ginther lines to 1B unassisted. 1 R 2 H 0 E, Belza left at 3B. Cowboys lead 1-0.
.
.
.
Top 7: (James relieves Osbourne) (Chambers PH for Uribe) Chambers HR to RF...
Formatting can be cleaned up and this is just a made up example, but this would greatly improve the updates I am able to provide. Perhaps the status updates could be configured for "X number of innings"; every 1/2 inning, every inning, every 3 innings, final score. Customization of what information gets posted could be added as well: just a 1/2 inning line score, batter-by-batter, substitution updates, the works, etc.
Perhaps a facebook application could be created to also allow live game tracking on a fan page or something similar to bring iscorecast to facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/cowboybaseball" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.twitter.com/cowboybaseball" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;