Tweeting At Nats Park

Dear Nats blogger/Twitterer/fan:

Hi. I’m Jon DeNunzio, one of the editors in The Post’s Sports department, and I’m looking for some help with an experiment this weekend. We’re considering a project that would capture and display Twitter posts from fans at Nationals Park during games. The primary goal is to get a feel for the stadium experience now that the park is broken in, so to speak. So we’re especially interested in Tweets about food and drink (and the ease/difficulty in getting them), seats and sightlines, ticket prices and other costs, pre-, in- and post-game entertainment, etc etc etc. Anything that sheds a little light on what it’s like to be at the game — good and bad — would be useful.

We’re hoping to test this concept at the three Braves games this weekend, with much fuller implementation at the long homestand that starts July 16.

How can you help? Pretty simple: if you’re at any of the games this weekend, it would be fantastic if you Tweeted a few times before/during/after (especially during) with these two hash tags attached: #natswp and #[section number]. Example: “The beer guy is offering half-price Miller Lite right now! #natswp #230”

If you really are motivated, you could also mention this on your blog or Tweets. Up to you. I’ll be tweeting about it shortly on @PostSports, too, if you wanna RT the call to action.

Since we’re not ready to go completely public with this yet, I set up a blog and am displaying the #natswp tweets in the sidebar. You can check it out here: http://nunztest.wordpress.com — and add comments/suggestions, etc there, or by emailing me back, or by Twitter to @jondenunzio or @PostSports. I am really interested in feedback.

Thanks for considering helping us out, and have a great holiday weekend.

Sincerely,

Jon DeNunzio

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