St. Anthony's Live Professional Race Coverage on Twitter

Triathlon Forum
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I proposed this to WTC/IMlive in January… good to know someone’s picking up on this.

Professional Athletes:

We have an exciting announcement for professionals competing in St Anthony’s Triathlon. In conjunction with Athletes for a Cure, we will be broadcasting a live Twitter feed of the race to between 25,000 and 100,000 Twitter followers on race day. We already have 20,000 signed up. This is an incredible opportunity to harness technology and promote your sponsors.

Triathlon reporter and podcaster Brian Brode will be at the race providing the minute-by-minute call via @athletes4acure

To take full advantage of this opportunity, you can do a few things to help yourself and your sponsors.

  1. If you have a Twitter account, follow @athletes4acure and let your followers know they’ll be able to see your progress in the race live by following @athletes4acure

  2. Please make sure that scott@athletesforacure.org knows you’re supporting this so he can provide Brian with all of the information he needs to make sure you’re recognized. Please provide Scott with your race bio. We will make every attempt to include as many professionals in the twitter cast as possible but primary concentration will be on Male and Female Top 3-5.

  3. If you aren’t supporting a charity, and would like to support Athletes for a Cure at St Anthony’s, let Scott know and he’ll provide you with a small logo transfer (see any photo of Craig Alexander for size and placement).

We’re proud to be on the cutting edge, and we hope you and your fans will “follow” on race day.

Thanks,

Philip LaHaye
Event Director

Scott Zagarino
scott@athletesforacure.org
Twitter: http://twitter.com/athletes4acure
Facebook: http://athletesforacurefans.org
http://afacblog.org

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Interesting…definitely something worth trying!

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Very Cool Idea - Both Zag and Philip are always looking to improve on the athletes/specators experience at triathlons! Z

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what would be really cool is have Trakkers setup a jumbotron with a live tracking feed of the pros. That would be really cool to watch!

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Bumping for the west coast morning crew.

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Uh… does no one twitter here? :wink:

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Brian Brode is the bomb. I ran 50 miles with him at the Rocky Raccoon. He did it with almost no training and wore a cotton tshirt because it had a message from a little girl on it about her dad’s cancer. He’s a regular on Triathlete Coffee Shop and Zen and the Art of Triathlon podcasts.

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I think this is a great idea! Using twitter could be a great way for spectators to track racers. What is your twitter name?

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Seeing as what other races are doing now for live race coverage, this is not so creative!

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same as my handle here.

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I’ll take reliable and informative over creative at this point.

ITU’s coverage is still the best.

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I don’t know why Ironmanlive wouldn’t do something like that for their race coverage as well…it’d essentially be free for them.

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it’d essentially be free for them.

For now… who knows the biz platform that Twitter will move into shortly.

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Yeah, but until they change, why not take advantage of it? There’s minimal effort involved on WTC’s part…

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Hey STers,

I’m proud to help out Athletes for a Cure and announce the St. Anthony’s Triathlon via Twitter. Please follow www.Twitter.com/athletes4acure

To make the experience interactive log onto www.TweetChat.com with your Twitter information. Then, type in the “Room to Enter” box this: #AFAC.

You can then Tweet messages to me, and the others in the #AFAC room during the race. TweetChat.com will then look for all recent tweets containing #AFAC and will add the #AFAC hashtag to your Tweets. The related tweets will scroll on your computer screen similar to a chat room.

The TwitterCast will begin at 6:30 AM (Eastern) on April 26, 2009.

Stay tuned…

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Follow athletes4acure on Twitter and #AFAC in a www.TweetChat.com chat room.

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Uncle Phil,great minds think a like. I am glad someone finally figured this out.

Frankly I would have tried doing this from Beijing but we were too far out of town and I was worried about data transfer plans…having said that, last summer I mentioned to rappstar how ST should figure out how to incorporate a live feed into ST. I hope that even if WTC does not jump on the twitter bandwagon (which they SHOULD), maybe some of the independents (70.3s, lifetime series, tri-california) will, or at the baer min maybe some trusted ST forum posters could post live feeds back to ST central. The tech part is easy…

and no, twitter isn’t going to a pay structure any time soon - they are light years behind FB and FB is still free (twitter is like 8mm people vs fb at 200mm).

speaking about twitter - EVEN (given their/lackof techawareness in general) triathletemag is on it …

for the short courser fans on here, greg bennett is on it at: http://twitter.com/GregBennett1