1. There is A LOT going on with Twitter these days thanks to the company’s new owner. Everyone on the social media site is collectively losing their minds about what might and might not happen to the platform.
(Side note: As discussed heavily in this week’s “Traina Thoughts” segment on the SI Media Podcast, nobody cares if you’re going to spend the $20 or $8 or whatever it might be for the blue check mark, so you can stop tweeting about it.)
I have no idea what the future holds for Twitter, but I do know one of the few positives about the 240-character service is it has given us insights into the lives of athletes that we never had before. Some of that has been good and some of that has been bad.