New iPad App Helps Sports Fans Follow the Action and Feed Twitter

When Philip Sanford goes to his favorite bar to watch his beloved Seton Hall Pirates, he brings along his phone charger so he also can follow the game on Twitter.

Heather Carleton looks to the social media website for clarification when there is a disputed call involving the San Francisco 49ers.David Foreman likes to communicate with West Virginia fans across the country.

More and more these days, when the game is on, so is the computer. Or tablet. Or cellphone. Sports fans around the world are following along on Twitter while they watch their favorite teams in person or on TV, and a new application from a San Francisco startup is designed to make that experience even easier for them.

"Since I can't really listen to it since I'm at a sports bar, I like to read about what's going on from a journalistic point of view," said Sanford, 29, who lives in Charlotte, N.C. "I can learn about what's going from several different sources."

There are signs all over that sports fans are using Twitter even while the games are going on in front of them.Sporting events are responsible for the majority of the top moments measured in tweets per second.

The Champions League soccer match between Barcelona and Chelsea on April 24 peaked at 13,684 tweets per second, second only to the 2011 showing of a movie in Japan.

Will Hunsinger, 42, is a proud Georgetown alum and an avid follower of the men's basketball team. He was watching a game last year while communicating with a friend over Facebook and receiving text messages from his father when he came up with an idea.

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