New Wolverine Confidential texting service
AAron McCann and MLive launching a text service for "exclusive access." Not sure what to expect from this.
$4.99 per month after 14 day free trial.
Why would people pay $5 a month to get more smoke blown up their ass with regards to information that you can probably find for ‘free’ about 15 minutes afterward?
There is no more "inside info".
I can’t believe anyone has paid a dime for any previous service for the past ~15 years.
I'm certainly not buying it, just passing the word.
This would be cutting edge in 2011
Twitter used to be the same way before everyone had smartphones. You could tweet through texting a number and also get SMS updates for accounts you followed.
Twitter still is this way in the regard that you can enable notifications to come across as banners and have noises associated with them. It is the same as a text message but for a different app. But you are right, all original Tweets were through SMS hence the original character limit of 140 because phones only had 160 characters per text. The 20 character difference was reserved for the username (maxed out at 16 characters, plus the @ symbol)
I'd never heard of him but looked up his twitter account and as many as 7 people have liked his tweet announcing the service. even if half of those people were to sign up, this will be dead by Sunday.
WD will scoop those guys for free on all the new inside Nike swag, right here on MGB, thats the only reason I keep coming back...for free.
McCann has zero inside access from anything I've ever seen on Twitter or in his writing. If you want, I'll text you what I'm reading online for $2/month. The same garbage you could've read elsewhere, but at a lower price!
I used to read MLive sports stuff so I read him for a bit. Bad writer, little understanding of football, no inside sources.
All that, for money, in your texts.
Guess it's not confidential anymore!
EDIT: I might pay a bit for "confidential" coach & player interviews following WINS vs OSU and whoever we play in bowl games!
Super sick. Updates sent directly to my Motorola Razr phone. Can't beat this offer.
I was hoping to get them to chirp my Nextel
Just hit me up on my beeper.
Fax me that shit
Why use a fax when a telegram will do just fine?
I'll take Morse code, semaphore and smoke signals, please.
Pony Express!
If he doesn't slide a freshly mimeographed sheet under my door every 12 hours it ain't worth it.
That sounds interesting.
Not!
I just looked it up, and "Borat" came out in 2006.
This "brilliant" (and by brilliant I mean it might be the dumbest thing I've heard of today) idea is so amazingly doomed to failure I'm almost impressed.
Here in Cleveland we have a sports talk radio station, 810 ESPN Cleveland, that launched a streaming service last year called "The land on demand" where, for a mere $8.99/month, you can listen to rebroadcasts of their programming.
Think about that one for a minute. They want people to pay over $100 per year to listen to old news on the radio.
As the late, great H.L.Menken once wrote: "nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people".
Hi mGrowOld, I'm a transplant from Kalamazoo, MI now living in the Youngstown area.
What were you sentenced to Ohio for?
Marriage.
My first stint lasted almost 25 years and then I got released for good behavior. On my second run now - just passed 10 years.
I think I'm in for life.
Job which actually is a great gig. My wife and I still get back to MICHIGAN for family as well as season ticket usage.
I'll wait the the extra 5 minutes and get the "confidential" and "insider" info for free when it is leaked to the internet.
I've literally never heard of Aaron McCann until today.
Catcher for the Tigers IMO.
mLive and McCann? No and no
What's MLive?
mLive is the electronic version of the defunct Ann Arbor News. It is mainly a news aggregator with minimal original or in-depth material.
Pretty sure this is an Advance Media thing. The website for Cleveland's newspaper has a similar thing, geared more towards the Browns. Nobody subscribes to the paper and everyone has adblockers.
Speaking of which, this 'didna' thing at the bottom of my page is earning my ire more and more by the minute.
Maybe the "inside info" would let insiders know which "Team Rules Violations" were drinky-drinky/smokey-smokey and what were missed curfew.
MSU's insiders would learn which middle linebackers are on steroids and which ones are just on Beefcake 4000.
There are some on this blog who will probably sign up for this service to add more credence to their bad posts. “ I heard it from an inside source....”
Ohh wonderful....$60 a year to get information 10-15 minutes before the rest of the internet world finds out.
If this had come out ~10 years ago, before Twitter, it'd probably be a pretty good idea. But everyone gets their information at light speed at this point anyway, so unless you are literally in the business of needing to be the one to report this information first, there's no point.
I'll pass.
Wolverine Confidential is an app for anonymous on-campus sex and not a thing any of you says will convince me of anything different.
I don’t really respect the free shit he writes.