Jeff OTMG
Member
Hey guys, a lot of new faces around here, but still some of the old names I recognize. I have not been around much for the last 5 years with the career change there is just no time. Not even to lurk. For those of you who remember I use to try to provide a little advanced information about the gun industry from my annual trips to the SHOT Show on the shotshowreports.com website. I guess I was one of the first bloggers, before we knew that was what it was called. I started that around 1998 and continued until a few years ago. There got to be a bunch of other people doing reports from the SHOT Show and it started to take up so much of my time it really was not needed anymore.
I just booked reservations for my son and I to Las Vegas for the coming show. My son is now writer for Apple and he had an idea that might work for all of us, if you guys are interested. Rather than taking 8-11 hours to post a report everyday, and you guys not getting it until the next morning, we thought about Tweeting our way through the show. We can both post to the same account for near real time information. We can even do some photos when the camera Nazi's aren't hanging around. We thought about it for the last show, but we were already there when we discussed it. We would be posting as we go so anytime you check in you should see something fresh. The old site would get 20,000+ hits during the week of the show and about 35,000 in a two week period so I know that there was at least some interest in the old format. I think that we all had fun with just few negative comments. The downside is that Tweets are limited to 140 character strings, which is a blessing to me that it won't take as long, so maybe not as much detail as before. Probably no Shotties either, there seems to be fewer of them with the downturn in the economy anyway or maybe I am getting older.
So what do you think? Do you want a Twitter based account of the SHOT Show? Is it a good idea?
I just booked reservations for my son and I to Las Vegas for the coming show. My son is now writer for Apple and he had an idea that might work for all of us, if you guys are interested. Rather than taking 8-11 hours to post a report everyday, and you guys not getting it until the next morning, we thought about Tweeting our way through the show. We can both post to the same account for near real time information. We can even do some photos when the camera Nazi's aren't hanging around. We thought about it for the last show, but we were already there when we discussed it. We would be posting as we go so anytime you check in you should see something fresh. The old site would get 20,000+ hits during the week of the show and about 35,000 in a two week period so I know that there was at least some interest in the old format. I think that we all had fun with just few negative comments. The downside is that Tweets are limited to 140 character strings, which is a blessing to me that it won't take as long, so maybe not as much detail as before. Probably no Shotties either, there seems to be fewer of them with the downturn in the economy anyway or maybe I am getting older.
So what do you think? Do you want a Twitter based account of the SHOT Show? Is it a good idea?
