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The 2009 World Am is live on Twitter!


Whether you're playing this year or thousands of miles away, be part of this groundbreaking event. Sign up for your own Twitter account (free!) and you can receive tournament updates and announcements in real time on your mobile phone or computer. We're already broadcasting updates, general golf information, fun trivia, and tournament announcements that you'll want to know about.


LIVE Twitter Posts that include #WorldAm   See bottom of page for explanation

Get Your Own Twitter Account


Now it's time for you to join in the conversation! If you can send a text message, then you can "tweet." Got a few minutes? Setting up on Twitter is simple. Check out the World Am page, and click "Join Now" to get your own account! Don't wait to sign up.

Are you playing this year?
Twitter will let you...

 Fans, friends, and family
can comment and follow
the action
  • Receive real-time tournament announcements 
  • Communicate directly with other players
  • Tell everyone about that eagle you just made on the 5th
  • View links to player photos, videos, and more
  • See your real-time "tweets" HUGE on the 19th Hole jumbo-tron!
  • Get started now!
  • World Am on Twitter will give you real time updates on players, stats, and conditions.
  • Our World Am staff will be posting one-click links to player photos, videos, and instant promotional offers for our Twitter audience ONLY during the tournament.
  • Twitter makes it easy to send a message to friends who are playing in the tournament, and to follow their comments.
  • Follow World Am!


Still a little Greek to you? Here's a short video about Twitter. 



 

Ready to get started? Just click the Twitter logo.

           Follow the World Am Tournament with Twitter!


As you go through the registration process, Twitter will automatically set up your account to follow about 20 high profile people. To not follow these automatic accounts, just click on "skip this step" at the bottom of your screen. After you're done, return to this page for directions.


Once you've created your Twitter account,
Start "following" people.
Click on each name below to go to their page, then click the "follow" button.

@WorldAm
If nothing else, follow this, the main World Am Tournament twitter feed. Our Twitter team including Kerri, Chris, Gordon, Steve, Dave and Myrtle will all be posting to @worldam. But you'll soon discover that the more you follow, the more interesting it gets.

@MyrtleGolfGuy
Meet Chris King. Chris is the go-to-guy for reporting Myrtle Beach Golf. He's always out either playing, talking about, or threatening to quit golf! Follow his rants and raves throughout the tournament.

@GolfMyrtle
Gordon McCawley is the voice behind GolfMyrtle. As tournament play gets underway, you'll find him out and about on any one of the 50 courses reporting highlights of the day's activities.

@MyrtleGolfBall
Tune in to Myrtle the Golf Ball, our official World Am Spokes-Ball and the most talkative of the bunch. She's engaging Twitter followers 7 days a week, from her unique and entertaining golf-ball perspective.

@WorldAm19th
Join us every night during tournament play, from 7-10pm. We'll be tweeting everyone's comments live from the legendary World's Largest 19th at the World Am, and beaming them out on the Jumbo-tron!

Next, get in touch with your fellow players or friends and family to get their twitter names. Then follow them, and ask them to follow you back.


Now you're on Twitter. What's next?
After you've set up your Twitter account on your computer, you can also use your mobile phone. If you can send a text message, you can tweet! And if you have a Blackberry, iPhone, or any other type of "smart phone," it's even easier and more fun to use Twitter.

To set up your mobile phone, go to your home page on Twitter, click "settings," then "devices," and follow the step-by-step instructions. (Standard text messaging rates apply)

There are also a number of free 3rd party Twitter applications for smart phones. We recommend:


Follow, tweet, repeat.

On your Twitter home page (www.twitter.com/yourtwittername) you'll see an empty box with the question "What are you doing?" That isn't exactly what everyone wants to know. Better to think of it like this: "What has your attention at the moment?" and fill in from there.

If your Twitter message is intended for one person only, start your tweet with @theirtwittername. If you want to address a comment to them, but make it public to all who follow you, start your message with a word or two, then include their @name. For example, "Hey @twittername, blah, blah, blah." If you want your comment to be very public, include #worldam in your tweet. (see below for more info.)

How to use #worldam
When any term is preceded by what's called a hashtag (or "Pound sign"), it's automatically tagged and funneled into a larger Twitter stream of comments that includes everything being posted on that topic.

Whenever you post any tweet concerning the world am that you'd like to make public, include #worldam in your 140 characters, usually at the end. To review all comments being made concerning World Am at any time, just go to your Twitter home page, and search "#worldam."