I finally got a Twitter account today. I guess I’m now officially a part of the 21st century. I hope you follow me on Twitter at BigRandle.

I don’t see Twitter as a way to give people a blow-by-blow description of my life. To be honest, it’s really sort of dull. I doubt if anyone cares when I’m eating supper or what I’m watching on TV, so don’t expect to see the life or Randy on my Twitter messages. However, I believes readers want breaking updates on live games and athletic events. Twitter will allow me to keep fans informed about what’s happening as it happens at games I’m covering so that’s a plus.

I know the best way I can serve those that follow local teams is to break sports news as I receive it and Twitter is just another tool to help me stay on top of things.

In the next few days I’ll be covering the Baker-Vernon football game, and the volleyball regional final between Baker and Freeport. I’ll be twitting from those events as I have the opportunity.

It might take me a while to get up to speed on this latest technology, but I’ll get there. It seems like only yesterday I was sitting in a freshman introduction to mass communications class at the University of Tennessee and the instructor told us the wonders of what we now know as the Internet. He said one day we wouldn’t need to have our paper delivered to our doorstep, but we could read it on our personal computer. In the spring of 1977 the concept of the Internet seemed as foreign as modern air travel would have seemed to those watching the first flight of the Wright Brothers.

Here I am a little less than 35 years later using the technology that seemed so visionary back then. Twitter is the latest method of keeping folks informed and I ready or not, here I come.

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