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Twitter enters recruiting fold

By Ryan Corazza

Friday, May 15, 2009

When college coaches realized text messaging appealed more to recruits than letters or phone calls, the floodgates opened. Some top-flight players received several texts a day, because the NCAA had no limit on how the number of messages coaches could send, and recruits were often stuck with huge cell phone bills. The NCAA recognized this and banned text messaging in August 2007. Enter Twitter. Earlier this week, the NCAA decreed direct messaging on Twitter -- correspondence only the sender ...

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