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This is great to see. Twitter really left you with few options. One huge advantage with rolling your own site is you can do everything that Twitter hasn't done. Due to either scaling or their community (depends who you ask) there is a lot that has been left to be desired with Twitter.

As an aside: I recently had a historic sport stat question come up and couldn't readily find the answer. Did Michael Jordan ever go scoreless in the second quarter during his career? I'm sure the information is out there. But I couldn't find it in a usable or detailed enough way to answer my question.



Sports events with an authoritative source can have problems with Twitter: http://twitter.com/MNBikeFestival/status/2111645285

Did Michael Jordan ever go scoreless in the second quarter during his career?

That is the sort of question that Wolfram Alpha was created for, but it doesn't look like NBA stats are covered yet, just NFL and MLB scores, and not yet in sufficient detail: http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/SportsGames.html




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