Facebook and Twitter

[cowboybaseball]

I maintain a fan page on facebook and also a page on twitter for a college baseball team. I post updates each 1/2 inning for each batter with a short description of what took place and a line score.

I noticed that 1/2 inning line scores are in the works for the next update. I have been manually posting this to facebook each 1/2 inning for each game and it takes quite a while.

Here is what I would like to do on my iPhone: I would like to use iScore to keep track of the game and have it post status updates to the facebook fan page each 1/2 inning with a batter-by-batter update as well as a line score and the current score with each post.

For example: Top 1: Duren singles through the left side, Belza doubles to RCF, David sac-fly to LF scores Duren (1 out), Green grounds to 2B 4-3 (2 out), Belza to 3B, Ginther lines to 1B unassisted. 1 R 2 H 0 E, Belza left at 3B. Cowboys lead 1-0.
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Top 7: (James relieves Osbourne) (Chambers PH for Uribe) Chambers HR to RF...

Formatting can be cleaned up and this is just a made up example, but this would greatly improve the updates I am able to provide. Perhaps the status updates could be configured for "X number of innings"; every 1/2 inning, every inning, every 3 innings, final score. Customization of what information gets posted could be added as well: just a 1/2 inning line score, batter-by-batter, substitution updates, the works, etc.

Perhaps a facebook application could be created to also allow live game tracking on a fan page or something similar to bring iscorecast to facebook.

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[FTMSupport]

We will consider adding Facebook as an output style as well. We have had some people say they post their Twitter feeds to their Facebook, and this would allow the Twittercast to be seen.

How about pointing people at the iScorecast? Then they get a description of every pitch.

[cowboybaseball]

I have pointed the fans to live stats that are provided via links on d1baseball.com in the past, but they have specifically requested live updates be posted to the facebook page, because it shows up in their newsfeed and allows comments and interaction with the other fans, based on inividual updates. We currently have approximately 1800 fans to the page. Last night I updated Twitter, using iScore. Are there settings somewhere in the iPhone app that deal with the frequency of updates? The app only posted a notice that the game had begun, with a link to the iscorecast site and a final score.

[FTMSupport]

There is a Twitter button that should be pressed any time you want to send a game upate. Just scroll the top section of the scoring screen to the left twice (same place as the ntes button). On the iPad it is always visible because there is enough space.