Originally posted to www.meridianfootball.com/news/?p=826

I’m proposing an ad-hoc Twitter network of Friday, and Thursday and Saturday, night scores throughout Washington. I have no idea if this is an original idea, but it’s new to me. Twitter has a feature called hashtags, keywords prefaced by “#” that Twitter uses for tracking topics. I am suggesting a common, easy format for people to post scores using the hash, “#wafbscores”. For instance, this coming Friday, I will be at Meridian vs. Squalicum, so I might Twitter a score update as follows:

“#wafbscores Mer 7 Squalicum 7 1st quarter”

More Twitter magic comes into play with the simple embedding of a hashtag widget that updates Tweets in the #wafbscores topic in real-time.

You can grab the code below and embed on your own site.

<div id="twtr-search-widget"></div>
<script src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/1/widget.js"></script>
<link href="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/1/widget.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
<script> new TWTR.Widget({ search: '#wafbscores',
id: 'twtr-search-widget', loop: true, title: 'Take Twitter to the Game',
subject: 'Friday Night Scores', width: 250, height: 300, theme: { shell: {
background: '#00070a', color: '#ffffff' },
tweets: { background: '#ffffff', color: '#444444', links: '#1985b5' } } }).render().start();
</script>

This widget will be pinned to the front page of Statewide Stats throughout the game weekend, and we’ll be encouraging others to include on their sites as well.

Please spread the word, tweet this, get the word out. I’ll be contact journalists to promote as well.