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EDMONTON - If Twitter followers were points, the Edmonton Eskimos would no longer be in the West Division’s basement.
One player alone would have them back on the right track, in fact.
By the end of Tuesday’s practice, special-teamer and Georgia Bulldogs product Rennie Curran had 51,744 followers. To put it in perspective, that’s somewhere in between Chad ‘Ochocinco’ Johnson’s 3.69 million and 41-year-old Anthony Calvillo — who may be the most prolific passer ever in the history of professional pigskin, but his only Twitter presence is a supposedly official account with 28 followers and zero tweets.
And while Eskimos fans were reminded last week of one of the many wrong ways Twitter can be used thanks to Odell Willis, Curran is the leading example of how it’s done right.
“I like Twitter, personally, because you’re able to connect with fans and just show them your human side when you’re outside of your pads,” said the man known to his tweeps as @RennieCurran53. “It can be bad, of course, you can’t be too opinionated or things like that. So you definitely have to know how to balance it.
“It can definitely be controversial, but for me, I like to spread positive words. I like to use my platform to support different causes. I’ve worked with a lot of different charities and stuff like that, and Twitter gives me the means to be able to do that.”
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