Using Twitter to get the score

It's actually a breach of copyright to publish live match updates unless you have bought a very expensive licence. The story of Footietweets getting a cease and desist order from Football Data Co is here at EPL Talk and at Paid Content. So if you do live blogging or a touch of tweeting and it gets noticed you'll get a stop it right now letter. Even having a web page of fixtures is breach of copyright.

I'm reminded of the Marx Brothers getting such a letter from the Warner Brothers film company over the use of the word Casablanca (a city in Maroc and a famous film) in their comedy "A Night in Casablanca". The response was something like Groucho would sue them because they used the word "Brothers" and that belonged to them.

It's a lost cause. The march of free to use do-it-yourself publishing applications overwhelmes the old school control of the world. You can close one down but another three will open up. You can encrypt and protect but some geek will always come along with a smart way around it. The nub is fans not in it for the money wanting a few crumbs of information against people who want to make more money from them.

Meanwhile until further notice check these on Twitter :
Manchester United Scores
Latestscores - list of other teams available
ManUtd24 - news, rivals updates & etc
Manchester United Youth - Reserves and Academy

I've not found a particular good Tweeting service for FC United. I do a bit of Twitter milarky myself a mixture of my two hobbies - food & footie at Biffadigital