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New Feature: Twitter Timelines for Each Fight
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04.20.2011 | 7:04 PM ET
Some of you history buffs might like this one. Now when you look on a bout page for a fight, we've locked in the Twitter history for the fighters before and after the fight.
This makes it easy to see what the fighters were talking about in the days leading up to and following the fight, frozen in time. The results are pretty interesting - each Tweet is timestamped in relation to when the fight took place (1 day before, 2 hours after, etc...).
You'll see fighters saying things like "Just landed in Vegas, time to go to war!" and then right above that where they say "Flying home, my hand is broken!" Scroll down on these pages until you find the Twitter section, for some good examples:
http://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/bouts/ufc-124-thiago-pitbull-alves-vs-john-doomsday-howard
http://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/bouts/ufc-127-jon-bones-jones-vs-ryan-darth-bader
We aren't collecting tweets for every fighter (some of them don't tweet, others we still need to add), but you'll see this information keep growing.
This makes it easy to see what the fighters were talking about in the days leading up to and following the fight, frozen in time. The results are pretty interesting - each Tweet is timestamped in relation to when the fight took place (1 day before, 2 hours after, etc...).
You'll see fighters saying things like "Just landed in Vegas, time to go to war!" and then right above that where they say "Flying home, my hand is broken!" Scroll down on these pages until you find the Twitter section, for some good examples:
http://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/bouts/ufc-124-thiago-pitbull-alves-vs-john-doomsday-howard
http://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/bouts/ufc-127-jon-bones-jones-vs-ryan-darth-bader
We aren't collecting tweets for every fighter (some of them don't tweet, others we still need to add), but you'll see this information keep growing.
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Responses
04.20.2011 | 7:11 PM ET
Pretty cool little feature...I know I'll be spending too much time reading those now!
"I'm too old to be run by the fears of dumb people "
04.20.2011 | 7:30 PM ET
Nice feature. I usually don't check out the fighter pages on this site, but this could change that.
"Don't be scared, homie." - Nick Diaz
04.20.2011 | 7:36 PM ET
Very nice feature.. again, I another unique item to Tapology.
"All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved" – Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"
