Tranter Banter

A.J.  McCarren is the quarterback of the Alabama Crimson Tide who has received world wide acclaim for his skills, looks and personality.  Since I’m not the sports blogger (ha ha, that’s a joke),  I won’t go into his stats here, but suffice it to say that he led the Alabama rout of Notre Dame in the BCS Championship game Monday night.    McCarren is a remarkable athlete and also a Twitter user.  McCarren’s growing chest tattoo has received a great amount of media attention from pictures to Twitter attention and blog posts around the world.

Well now McCarren’s girlfriend is receiving even greater attention than he is!  It all started Monday night when the announcers of the BCS Championship game seemed to be mesmerized by the beauty of A.J.’s girlfriend, Katherine Webb.   In fact, the announcers gushed over her for several minutes and she was spotlighted multiple times during the game.   Katherine is 23 years old and just happens to be Miss Alabama and she is beautiful.

Katherine is so popular now that she is creating a social media sensation.  Her Twitter account went from a couple hundred followers before the game to over 228,000 followers as of this writing.  She is even followed by folks like LeBron James.  A.J. McCarren has a mere 133,000 followers. Katherine has received so many text messages, that it shut down her phone.

So if you still think Twitter is dumb….

• There are over 360 million Twitter users.
• Daily tweets total 230 million.
• Over 55 million Twitter users log in using their mobile devices every month.
• Organizations leveraging Twitter include restaurants, attorneys, medical, retail, brands and celebrities.
• 37 percent of Twitter users will purchase from a brand.

Maybe you should rethink Twitter and learn to write conversations in 140 characters or less.