Drumming up traffic to twitter is not a good business model. I know Rob well, and he doesn't do stuff like that.
Okay, obviously I wasn't talking about getting traffic to twitter. The purpose of posting things on twitter is to get traffic to his Hawkeye Insider site, where, yes, he collects an income. This is why nearly every media person in America has a twitter account, and I'm cool with it. It's capitalism and I'm down with that.
Also, I don't think Howe was conciously thinking, this will get people to my site. It's more like, my business is to get people to read my stuff, people read my stuff because I get them inside info, therefore I need to get some inside info out there, even that info is so criptic it has no meaning. This is the bias towards speed over accuracy that I'm pointing out. Rob Howe is definitely guilty of it, as is almost every single other media person -- that's a fact. I think he's more guilty than others -- that's my opinion.
BTW, I'm not hating on Howe, and I'm not hating on the system. I like the system, even if it with it's limitations.
My whole point is that this tweet tells us nothing. "A while" could mean Ball St., could mean Penn St., could mean Mich., could mean our Bowl. We don't know.