Twitter suspends Iowa and Iowa State football accounts
It's possible the accounts were suspended over copyright issues with music in produced videos.
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Portland’s C.J. McCollum actually met Jennifer from the ‘I’m Trying Jennifer’ tweet
He tried, Jennifer. And he did it.
Padres change Twitter handle to “Madres” for Mother’s Day, immediately lose original handle
For a few hours, @Padres belonged to the first person who could claim it.
USA Today tweets “The Cubs banned Theo Epstein for life” to promote story on Cubs banning a fan for a racist gesture
Theo Epstein is the Cubs' president of baseball operations, and he discussed the ban for a fan after a racist gesture. He was not the one banned.
NBA ends relationship with vendor who ran official NBA Turkey Twitter account for not mentioning Enes Kanter in tweet
The reason is due to the current political scene in Turkey.
Twitter’s new live-streaming video lineup includes deals with ESPN, The Players’ Tribune, and Bleacher Report
The strangest new show coming to Twitter may be The Players' Tribune's " Don’t @ Me, "an interactive live broadcast featuring two athletes debating every 'greatest of all time' topic under the sun."
Awful Twitter troll inadvertently rallies support for ESPN’s Royce Young and neonatal organ donation cause
Royce Young is an NBA reporter for ESPN covering the Oklahoma City Thunder. That means he’s been in...
Jeff Fisher calls Jason La Canfora’s report he’s “in line” to coach a XFL team “false news” (updated)
"GOOD GOD, THAT'S JEFF FISHER'S MUSIC!"
A Bleacher Report NBA tweet that screwed up attribution, linking, and Jayson Tatum’s name was called out, then deleted
This tweet got roasted and was quickly deleted, but not before picking up over 700 likes.
Fake reporter tweeted that Colgate’s Jordan Burns missed a flight and took an Uber, fooled CBS and Burns’ mom
A fake reporter account that's been around since December got almost 10,000 likes for a false report of a Colgate player missing a flight, a report subsequently picked up by some CBS local sites. That report even fooled the player's mom.
Barstool Sports deletes over 61,000 social media posts after content theft controversy, CEO Erika Nardini says she won’t apologize
"That’s not the fault of Barstool. I can’t apologize for every human on the internet who submits a video under a dummy email account and says it’s theirs."
Johnny Manziel calls out “Real Dick Tator,” a Twitter account pretending to be an ESPN reporter, so “Tator” frames the tweet
No, "@RealDickTator" is not actually an ESPN reporter.
The official NBA Refs account providing more interaction on calls is going great, even if their explanation is bullshit
Twitter explanations are fun, even when they're complete bullshit.
Despite interest from Yahoo and Turner, Cassidy Hubbarth is staying at ESPN
Hubbarth will be hosting a new show on Twitter before ABC’s Saturday night NBA games
Football Outsiders’ assistant editor Scott Kacsmar loses job as offensive tweets resurface
There’s been a lot of Sturm und Drang recently about the ethics and merits of digging up old tweets on...
