Proving there's currency and creditability in followers, Casey, considered to be a primarily Twitter-based blogger and not your average media type, has just been gifted with a real reporter perch in the exclusive courtside press row for the 2009-10 St. John's men's basketball season.
St. John's is an NCAA Division 1 team, and a member of the Big East conference. As such, press credentials from the team is quite the coup for the Twittering basketball lover. In fact, it appears to be the first NCAA press row seat offered to someone with just Twitter credentials.
According to the team, "Casey’s arrangement with St. John’s Athletics is as an independent, credentialed Twitter micro-blogger, which will allow him to use his access to take St. John’s basketball from his behind-the-scenes vantage point directly to hoops fans worldwide, and in real time via Twitter."