The Golf Blog at The Golf Wish » social networking http://www.thegolfwish.com/blog The Fore Front of Golf Thu, 12 May 2011 22:08:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Tiger Joins Social Networking Frenzy http://www.thegolfwish.com/blog/pga/tiger-joins-social-networking-frenzy/ http://www.thegolfwish.com/blog/pga/tiger-joins-social-networking-frenzy/#comments Thu, 02 Dec 2010 03:05:21 +0000 thegolfwish http://www.thegolfwish.com/blog/?p=582 Tiger Woods has joined the millions of tweeters to share his thoughts and answer fan’s questions. Who would have imagined? I just checked out his Twitter account and discovered that he had 299,999 followers and growing;  within minutes that number jumped to 300,126. The number two in the world can certainly draw a crowd quickly.

Tiger setup his official Twitter account in June with one tweet, “Welcome to my new Twitter page at www.twitter.com/TigerWoods “ Based on his second tweet, he also setup a new Facebook page, www.facebook.com/Tiger . And the third announced his new website at www.TigerWoods.com . Then all went silent until November 17 when he resurfaced with a “What’s up everyone? Finally decided to try out Twitter!”

Two weeks later, Tiger surprised his followers with 23 tweets within an hour on November 30 after his on camera interview with Golf Channel’s Steve Sands where Tiger discussed the past, present and the future. After all the ups and downs of the past year, Tiger is opening up to his fans and trying to reconnect with all by answering questions for all the world to read.

Based on how quickly his base of followers is growing, he’ll be sure to bypass fellow golfer Ian Poulter’s crowd of followers (over 1 million followers) before long if the pace of new followers continues to grow by 150+ followers per half hour! Tiger already has approximately 1.5 million friends on Facebook. Are you a Tiger follower or friend?

]]> http://www.thegolfwish.com/blog/pga/tiger-joins-social-networking-frenzy/feed/ 0 Social networking expands to golf http://www.thegolfwish.com/blog/general-golf/social-networking-expands-to-golf/ http://www.thegolfwish.com/blog/general-golf/social-networking-expands-to-golf/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:13:02 +0000 thegolfwish http://www.thegolfwish.com/blog/?p=445 I joined Facebook somewhat reluctantly a few years ago and now find I’m way more addicted to it than I ever anticipated. It’s an incredible way to get in touch with people but also, unfortunately, to waste time that I really don’t have. Well, recently I came across what appears to be a social networking site just for golfers called The Golf Space. According to their site they have 1717 members; nowhere near Facebook or MySpace obviously but still a fair number of members for a site dedicated to one specific hobby/passion. It looks like you can do everything from meet other golfers to play fantasty golf to shop for golf related items. Is anyone out there a member or have you heard of this? So far I’m resisting the temptation; one social networking site is enough for me, but it definitely piqued my curiosity.
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