@Dreamteam_Guru has a look at twitter etiquette on how we interact with afl football players.
Andrew Bogut (Australian NBA player) tweeted this week. To paraphrase, he wrote "yes - I'm out for the season. No - I don't care about your fantasy teams."
This reminded the guru of when his primary school buddy played with an afl club. Chatting over facebook, the guru kept asking the player afl related questions before the player wrote "can we talk about something else - I get a bit tired of talking about work all the time."
In short, AFL (or sport in Bogut's example) is a career to these people. Dreamteam is a hobby of ours, but one the players don't necessarily care for.
Scenario - let's say twitter's Jobe Watson goes down with injury. Diagnosis out for 7 weeks. This would figuratively cripple some dreamteams. He would probably like to get messages stating "all the best in your recovery mate."
He probably wouldn't care much for an addition of "get better quickly as The Gurus Men need you" or "great - now I have to play Dion Prestia" or "you just cost me a trade, Jobe!"
If you do contact players via twitter, have a think first - what are you actually saying, will 150 people write the same thing & does your hobby interest your audience. You don't want them to pull a Bogut on you!
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