Social media can be bleak. Add the fervour and fandom of sports and it can skew especially severe, with armchair experts ready to offer trade terms at a pro athlete’s first misstep. But there are good things to be found if you’re a sports fan, too: news broken by insiders, your favourite athletes reacting to huge plays right along with you, a sense of community and, at the very least, a tool to stave off boredom.
Marie Holloway was hoping for the latter when she first took to Twitter during Toronto Raptors games.
“I would watch the games by myself most of the time.