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HITS Announces Launch of Social Networking Pages on Facebook and Twitter

Written by: Jennifer Wood
Client: HITS Desert Circuit and HITS Ocala Winter Circuit
Release Date: 2009-08-06

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Saugerties, NY - August 6, 2009 - HITS is pleased to announce that they have launched sites for the HITS Horse Shows on Facebook and Twitter, which will help exhibitors, sponsors, and fans keep track of all of the up-to-minute-news on HITS and their horse show circuits across the country.

“We are very excited for the opportunities that social networking can do for horse shows,” said HITS President and CEO Tom Struzzieri. “We feel that Facebook and Twitter will be new outlets for us to distribute important information to our customers. We are still getting up to speed on all the capabilities, but the team is excited to have a fresh way to interact with our exhibitors. It’s also an additional way we hope to drive people to our website to access many of the great features available to them like prize lists, entry blanks, lodging partners and results.”

Facebook is a social networking web site that has millions of users all over the world. The HITS Horse Shows page on Facebook will provide up-to-date and interesting links, updates, photos, videos, links to partners and sponsors, press releases, discussion boards, blogs, and more.

Twitter is a new and interesting way for people to communicate. Twitter asks one question, "What are you doing?" Answers must be under 140 characters in length and can be sent via mobile texting, instant message, or the web.

HITS is one of the first horse shows to set an amazing precedent by using Twitter to report horse show results and important information in a fast, easy way for all equestrians. Using the HITS Horse Shows page on Twitter, followers can sign up to receive HITS information, or “tweets” as they are known, on their cell phones, smartphones, or via e-mail and get lightning-quick results from major classes at the HITS Horse Shows, as well as closing entry reminders, prize list release information, and major class entries.

“Facebook is a really easy way to stay informed,” said top hunter/jumper trainer and rider Patricia Griffith. “Even if I’m not at a HITS horse show, I can still know what is going on there. If updates are done that way with new classes, new prize money, and information like that, I would see it on Facebook. You notice it when updates are posted (on your Facebook homepage). It would also be nice to highlight the big classes and the winners, or to announce changes to the show schedule, and it would be great to see the photos and videos. I think people will really like that.”

Sign up as a fan of HITS Horse Shows’ page on Facebook today, and sign up to follow HITS Horse Shows on Twitter! Don’t be out of the loop!

The HITS Horse Shows pages on Facebook and Twitter will have information on their horse show circuits, like the remaining 2009 shows at HITS Saugerties on August 26-30, September 2-6, and the Marshall & Sterling League Finals on September 10-13, and HITS Culpeper on August 12-16, August 19-23, and the USGPL Finals on September 23-27.

For 2010, the pages on Facebook and Twitter will be the place to find fun photos, videos, blogs, discussions, and information on the HITS Desert Circuit, which runs from January 26 to March 14, the HITS Ocala Winter Circuit on January 19 to March 21, and the HITS Arizona Winter Circuit on February 3 to March 14.

Announcements on special classes, judges, course designers, prize money, and more will be made regularly for all of the HITS Horse Show circuits. To keep on track with the updates or to request a copy of the winter circuit prize lists, please visit www.HitsShows.com.

Photo Credit: Screengrabs of the new HITS Horse Shows pages on Facebook and Twitter. Photo courtesy of HITS. This photo may be used free of charge only in relation to this press release.