'Hashtag Gambling Twitter is a thing,' Mike Dupree, director of media and entertainment for Twitter, told ESPN. In February, according to Twitter, the top hashtag included in sports betting tweets about the Super Bowl between the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals wasn't #ramsnation or #whodey - it was #GamblingTwitter. And, now, with widespread legal betting spreading rapidly, Gambling Twitter is on the rise. Meanwhile, con artists, promising inside information and guaranteed locks, lurk behind random anonymous accounts, ready to take advantage of the gullible, and trolls stand poised to attack anyone who doesn't meet their standards. The passionate online community known as Gambling Twitter has long been an intense battleground, full of bettors, bookmakers, con artists and trolls.įor years, bettors and bookmakers have relentlessly lobbed pot shots at each other, while anxiously awaiting the next tweet from a small-college beat writer or for a WNBA player to post a telling emoji.
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