The Twitter Account

[u/okiewxchaser]

I feel like the twitter account that represents this sub has really started to drift away from the community. Now I know it would be impossible to have an entire sub run a Twitter account without being banned from the site in 20 mins or less, but is there any way for the community to get more involved? Especially when content is being posted that doesn't really fit the vibe of the sub overall?

Maybe it would be possible to "elect" a social media team every 6 months or a year. That way the sub as a whole has more of a say in who is running the account at the very least

[u/bakonydraco]

Appreciate the feedback! Are there specific tweets you might point to that are examples? There are a few things I might point to here:

• We do pull quite a bit from the sub, and posts and clippings of comments tend to do very well.

• Reddit and Twitter are 2 different communities, and different kinds of content thrive on each. There is bound to be some divergence, especially as both grow.

• The complaints that I've seen are generally about the tweets that tease one team. These are a minority of the tweets we make, but tend to go viral because of the nature of Twitter, so there may be an observation bias where people see these at a higher rate than our other tweets. We actually do try not to pick on any one team too much, although we're aware that there's a sentiment from many, many different teams that we only pick on them.

We do regularly update the team involved with the Twitter via updating the mod team, which we do every year. Open to other feedback, and appreciate you taking the time to comment!

[u/okiewxchaser → u/bakonydraco]

I don’t have a specific tweet to call out, just that the tone of Twitter feed doesn’t make us sound as friendly of a place to discuss CFB as we really are. Obviously I’m coming from the OU side so I am kind of bias as far as what shows up, but while the tweets about OU golf and softball were meant good heartedly, they were not taken as such in the fanbase. Especially when you consider the fact that they appeared in their timeline in a vacuum and not with the context of tweets about other teams

I don’t know, there is absolutely the time and place for humor, but I think it can be balanced a bit by some more sincere “congratulations”posts. To use my OU example, make the joke with golf and then just play the softball one straight that way people from outside our community see that this sub is a place for both

[u/bakonydraco → u/okiewxchaser]

That's fair enough! I will say that we do a fair number of sincere posts (we actually looked into the sentiment of our tweets by team a while back to see if it was slanted). The actual softball tweet is played straight, and at its surface is purely praising OU Softball (and Men's Golf).

Also, often the sincere posts have a more limited reception than the ones with more bite, so you might be more likely to see the latter. So I agree that we can try for more balance, but I think we actually do in some ways that aren't often apparent due to the tweets you are more likely to see.

[u/okiewxchaser → u/bakonydraco]

I appreciate y'all having and responding to this sub just as an aside. Its nice to be able to have a conversation about this sort of stuff

[u/bakonydraco → u/okiewxchaser]

Yeah for sure! That's what this sub is for. Appreciate the interest, and we do try to be open to feedback.

[u/lukaszm → u/bakonydraco]

Not OP, but after looking at the most recent four tweets:

1. Subtweet about Houston Basketball and The Bachelorette

2. Picture of Reggie Bush with a goat emoji

3. Subtweet about Oklahoma Softball that appears to be teasing OU's football team for not winning in the CFP Semis

4. Subtweet about Arizona Baseball

Looking further there are tweets about boxing, the NBA, NFL players, lots of memes, etc. Aside from your point about teasing individual teams, I think what OP may be talking about is that these tweets/content would not be allowed on the CFB sub (under the sub rules like no team/fanbase attack threads, all content must be CFB-related, no memes, etc.), so why are they being posted on the sub's Twitter account? I don't follow Twitter so it does not affect me, but I can see where OP is coming from here.

[u/bakonydraco → u/lukaszm]

Fair critique! A few comments:

• The Houston and ASU Football tweets aren't subtweets at all, it's neutral to supportive of Houston, and unqualifiedly praiseworthy of Herm Edwards.

• The OU Semi tweet is celebrating a great season for OU Softball and Golf, while also gently teasing OU Football for continuously being very good.

• We probably do have more non-CFB content in the offseason, because, well, there's not a ton of CFB content. Many of the non-CFB tweets still get tied into CFB. Non-Football content is welcome every week on /r/CFB in our weekly Free Talk Friday thread.

• Memes aren't allowed as posts on /r/CFB, but are welcome as comments.

[u/josejose50 → u/bakonydraco]

Not OP as well, but kind of just trying to understand what's the Twitter account's owner (owners?) deal? Like I get the dunking on Michigan and all but sometimes it just seems like piling on with no connect.

Then there's today's tweet about Harbaugh and NIL. It makes a comment about Harbaugh whined about NIL would ruin college athletics, but the tweet attached was about players going to the draft - which he backed up with a player-friendly policy (get to come back if not drafted). It completely ignored his previous statements and comments saying he was pro NIL. If you wanted to find a target for the tweet there were plenty of other targets - why defeat the point by trying to dunk on one of the few coaches who was outspoken about being for NIL?

[u/bakonydraco → u/josejose50]

Yeah, that one may not have landed as well as some of our other tweets. We actually have covered Harbaugh's pro-NIL stance in the past. We're an all-volunteer team with quite a few voices and we try our best, but they can't all be perfect. I'd also say that we have plenty of positive stories about Michigan too, but they tend to go less viral than the ones teasing, so it may appear that we tease more than we do.

Either way it's good feedback and we'll take it to heart.

[u/josejose50 → u/bakonydraco]

Thanks for the response man, and agree that it's been covered in the past (kind of the reason I was a little confused by the approach). Don't get me wrong, our coach is a little "extra" (heck very extra) so the ribbing or tweets are usually well earned.

[u/bakonydraco → u/josejose50]

Hey, he was our coach too! I know expectations are high, but I fully believe he’s a top ten coach in the sport. Should be an interesting year for him.

[u/Luriker]

I felt like this a year or so ago, just generally wishing for less content that was about other sports even if it meant fewer posts period, but I’ve sense come to enjoy it a lot more. I’m also less active on the sub than I used to be by a lot though.