Washburn fans can now follow the Ichabods and Lady Blues on twitter. Twitter gives members of the Washburn sports information office to provide real-time updates and quick notes - known as tweets - to fans who are signed up on their cell phones.

Fans can find the wusports page on twitter at www.twitter.com/wusports.

Click on the join today button and type in your name, creating a user name with a password and your email address. After entering the security words, click "create my account."

After that, go to www.twitter.com/wusports and press the follow buttons to being receiving messages.

To receive text messages on your mobile device, add your cell phone to your twitter account. Text a verification code to 40404. Text "on" to twitter and then text "on" wusports to twitter.

*In order to send/receive texts to/from Twitter, your cell phone carrier must have the capability of “short code” enabled to their phones. This allows you to send/receive messages to/from a five digit number (such as 40404 for Twitter). If you receive an "invalid message" response, contact your cell phone provider.