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The NCAA's Taming of Twitter

By Ryan Corazza

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Last week, the NCAA told us college coaches were not allowed to @reply anyone on Twitter. Direct messaging was the only channel of communication allowed through the service. Their reasoning? The ruling falls in line with the current NCAA electronic transmission guidelines: direct messaging is seen as e-mailing, which is permissible for coaches. But those electronic transmission guidelines only apply to recruits. Coaches are allowed to use the messaging/e-mail functions on social networks to ...

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