At 10:28 p.m. Saturday night, I tweeted "Marion Grice stats: 17 carries for 59 yards and 3 touchdowns."
That was the last tweet I sent during ASU football's dramatic victory over Wisconsin.
No, my computer didn't die and the Wi-Fi was working.
I was put in "Twitter jail" for the first time in my life, which happens when one reaches the maximum tweets allowed per day.
Usually, this kind of nonsense happens to the diabolical tweeters who tweet every detail of their painstakingly irrelevant lives.
But no, this happened to me as a young reporter trying to do his job at a football game.
I was forced to sit behind bars in the press box, my freedom no longer a click away.
This is a problem and a frustrating one at that.
Cynics will note: It’s only Twitter.
But Twitter is a nice platform for reporters to get their names out there.
I wasn't the only one to be banned from the Twittersphere, either.
ASUDevils.com (@ASUDevilscom), Devils Digest (@DevilsDigest) and even the Sun Devils' official account (@FootballASU) were banned for portions of the game.
Twitter needs to understand that reporters tweet a lot during games and free us permanently from “Twitter jail."
Reach the reporter at dsshapi1@asu.edu or follow him on Twitter (if he's not in jail) @DsShapi
