Players on Twitter?

[Mr. Laser Beam]

If an account shows up on Twitter purporting to be a real player or commentator (such as David Cone, who has been talking about going on Twitter but I don't think he's done it yet*), how can we be sure it's really them? Should we just wait until they mention it on the air?

* I did a Twitter search and there's at least three accounts called "David Cone" although I doubt any of them are real.

[ipitch]

For the real Yankees, just look at who the YES Network is following. https://twitter.com/YESNetwork/following
Quite a few Yankees (and announcers), but David Cone is not one of them. So, the ones you are seeing are probably fake.

[TexAg]

only trust verified accounts.

[ian2813]

Baseball-Reference has links to known Twitter accounts on player pages.

[Ben Grimm]

Speaking of BB-Ref, I found this amusing on the main page...

The Stumble to 500,000 Errors
499,810 MLB errors since 1876.
500,000th expected in 12 days.

[Mr. Laser Beam]

only trust verified accounts.

How can you tell if an account is verified?

[hairmetalfreek]

Several team websites have a list of their players' accounts. Here is the link for the Yankees:

http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/fan_forum/social_media/index.jsp?c_id=nyy#smc_twitter

Just go down near the bottom of the team's homepage, where they have the "Connect With" banner, click on the Twitter logo, and then "View All Twitter Accounts."

[DownUnderDodger]

What is Twitter apart from an avenue for a bunch of people who post on celebrity accounts, thinking that those celebrities actually read those posts and give a hoot, or for bunch of celebrities who have so much time on their hands that that can spend all day tweeting rubbish and feeding those people!!