The Finger Wag – Athletes using Twitter and Social Media to their Disadvantage

Matt Barnes, fresh off being humiliated in the 2010 NBA Playoffs has taken to twitter to comment on his thoughts going into this year’s off season

Matt_Barnes22

(Matt Barnes)

Seasons over I'm waitn 4 one of u bball groupies 2 say sumthen NOW!! No 1 would know any of u if u kept ur legs closed. B EZ tricks!!! On 5:43 AM May 31st 2010 from Twitter for BlackBerry®

Why would a groupie wait until after a season where the Magic severely underperformed expectations to say something?

In the case of these twitter highlights the women be shoppin for men…

Kellie Wells, a track and field star, was watching the Lakers playing the Suns and had some choice words to describe Kobe Bryant:

KellieWellz

(Kellie Wells)

No matter how much Kobe loves white women.... I still love him. He's just so fine! On 12:42 AM May 24th 2010 from UberTwitter

Kim Glass, an Olympic volleyball player, was looking for love on a recent flight:

What can you learn from these tweets? That I am not their type.
That, and just about nothing else.

Hey Everyone -

Welcome back to work after a long Memorial Day weekend, hope everyone enjoyed it. We want to take a second here and thank everyone who has given their life protecting our country.

You, like myself, probably celebrated by throwing on a drunk at a cookout or maybe hitting the pool or a lake? Athletes do things a bit differently and I noticed a lot of them seemed to be doing things Vegas-style this weekend:

DonteWhitner

(TWHITNER )

I'm still up veags BABBYyyyyyyy! I love my kids! On 11:51 AM May 29th 2010 from UberTwitter

kassimosgood

(kassim osgood)

We gettin Arab Moneyyyyyy!!!! We gettin Arab Moneyyyyyy!!! On 10:14 PM May 27th 2010 from SimplyTweet

Good luck making it through the first work day back, we will try to keep you
entertained a little.