LIVE TWEETING THE SUPER BOWL

On February 3rd, I watched and live tweeted the Super Bowl. The game was between the Patriots and the Rams. I am not a huge football fan, but I do like to watch big games like this and because my parents love to watch football, I actually understand the game. I am from a suburb of Chicago, so I am a Bears fan and didn't have any particular interest in who won the game. I do have a roommate who is a huge patriots fan and we were cheering for them, but I also wanted the Rams to win a little bit, because they seemed like the underdog.

These were my first couple of tweets I had at the start of the game. I had a poll of who wanted to win the game, and it showed that a majority of other people wanted the Rams as well.

These are more examples of my tweets throughout the game. As the game kept going, I found it harder to keep on live tweeting. In my opinion, I thought this Super Bowl game was pretty uneventful and a little bit boring to watch. I also have never live tweeted before, so a lot of the times I thought I wasn't tweeting enough or that I wasn't sure exactly what to write in my tweets. I tried to do a variety of tweets too. I wrote my own with hashtags and tagged the players or team, retweeted each teams tweets, and did polls.

I also added tweets with pictures to try a new style as well. I also found it hard to live tweet the Super Bowl, because while I understand the game as a whole I realized I didn't know a lot of the technical terms and how to write exactly what was happening in my tweets. I felt like I didn't know enough about football to be live tweeting the Super Bowl. I also found myself forgetting to live tweet certain things, because I was too invested in just enjoying and watching the game with my friends.

The last tweet from the example above that I retweeted was a tweet with information that I thought I should be tweeting. However, I found that a lot of people do live tweet all the time and that my tweets may have not had a lot of technical terms and information, but they were still giving the most important information from the game. I found live tweeting to be interesting and definitely made me pay closer attention to the game, but I also found that I wasn't having as much fun as I usually would just enjoying watching the game. I thought this was a good experience, but I probably would not live tweet an event again.