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[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]Twitter has provided everyone with a voice and an opinion. I have an account and I use it mainly to bash Duke Basketball, Lebron’s hairline, and Jeff Goodman (in that order). My twitter profile isn’t for everyone, that’s why people have the option to follow. There is a catch though, if they in fact don’t like what I have to say they may choose to unfollow. This way they will not be offended or bored anymore by my non-sense. And on top of that, if someone were to randomly tweet hurtful words towards you, you could block them to avoid further unprovoked name calling. [/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]So, what about Kentucky basketball players’ twitter accounts? It may be a given that all UK fans would want to follow them and hear their personal thoughts in real time. That sounds great, until a Josh Harrellson calls out his coach for not giving credit for a job well done in a blue white game. That little tweet cost Josh his twitter account for the year and many, many miles of running. If Calipari had Enes eligible he may have very well kicked Josh off the team. Cal, at the time, really had nothing to gain by suspending Josh. Cooler heads prevailed, it worked itself out and the rest is history.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]Recently two current UK ball players have received some “heat” for their tweeting. Ryan Harrow, who may be the most active twitterer on the team, is very transparent with his tweets. He tweets how he feels almost on an hourly basis. Whether that’s disrespected, proud, humbled or in love. We all have those emotions and some us perhaps tweet those very things as well. Sunday night, local blogger Matt Jones, tweeted this about Ryan Harrow “Future UK PG [B]Ryan[/B] [B]Harrow[/B] ([/SIZE][/FONT][URL=”http://twitter.com/12Harrow”][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff][U]@12Harrow[/U][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]) tweets more about trying to find true love than any college basketball player in history”. [/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]While it’s still not been confirmed if that statement is indeed true (sources working to confirm), this one tweet sparked a social fire on an otherwise boring Sunday night. Ryan Harrow didn’t take to kindly this by saying “if you don’t like my tweets don’t follow me. I’m not gone talk about ball on here cuz that’s not all I am”. Good for you, Ryan. I actually applaud a player who tweets about other stuff aside from basketball. I follow Ryan and have never thought once of unfollowing him. He’s real and honest on there, and we shouldn’t mock him for that. [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]Darius Miller joined in on the twitter controversy Monday afternoon. Darius’ situation is a little different. Darius had an ingenious thought, in my opinion, to declare certain tweets on his timeline as #NOBODYCARESTWEETS. If you have twitter, you know what he is talking about. Some people tweet every movement they make and it does get a little ridiculous. For example, someone tweeted on Darius’ timeline “About to be off and time to take a nap” Darius labeled this a “#nobodycarestweet”. This label was actually useful when people were going off on Darius for being mean. One person told Darius “I hate you” and he replied, “Normally this is the response u will get after u tell them nobody cares But this is also a #nobodycarestweet”.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]Darius was bored and decided to have fun. Some people weren’t in the mood, and unfollowed him and that was their right. That’s the beauty of twitter. I actually found this to be very funny and I will use this on many Duke and Jeff Goodman retweets in the future.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]These guys are just human and they have feelings just like us. Let us, as fans, try to think twice before jumping the gun and sending messages to them. If it is something you would send the average Joe and you feel you MUST send a message then do it. I say we try to enjoy these guys while there still here and on a social platform that we can watch. Otherwise we will run them off and socially we’ll be back in the 1990’s where they only speak in random press conferences.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]Lastly, if you ever feel the need to ask a UK basketball player for a retweet, don’t. Just like having a goatee and a ponytail, it will never be socially acceptable.[/SIZE][/FONT]
