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Twitching Tweeters

To: John Tongue <>
Subject: Twitching Tweeters
From: L&L Knight <>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:45:35 +1000
John,

Is drivining
a twitcher's form of divining
where in a few words
you go searching for birds
gone to ground in the evining?

Regards, Laurie.

On 11/11/2009, at 3:36 PM, John Tongue wrote:

I also find it's a pretty 'full-on' time! I barely have time to fire off any pictures, let alone be sending texts and tweets (if I'd taken up tweeting, which I haven't yet). I guess there is the time while drivining from place to place, but even then I'm usually scanning the skies!.

Anyway, I guess it could suit some.

Cheers,
John Tongue
Ulverstone, Tas.
(Provisional 2nd place-getter - AGAIN - in "The Great Tassie Twitch")


On 11/11/2009, at 3:40 PM, Peter Shute wrote:

Bob, I'm not sure if your posting is really asking what is the point of Tweeting during a twitchathon, or if you just love alliteration a lot.

There are a couple of reasons I can think of for doing it. One is for the fun of it, as an experiment to see if there's any use in it, the other is to attempt to turn twitchathons into a spectator sport.

Sponsors might be more prepared to offer sponsorship if they can actually follow the race, and more people might feel inclined to enter a team if they followed last year's race. Of course, I can see that many teams wouldn't want the others to know what they're doing or how they're going, so that's a problem.

Peter Shute

Robert Inglis wrote on Wednesday, 11 November 2009 2:55 PM:

I would think that Feeding a whole lot of RSS to a bunch of Twitching
Tweeters on Twitter could create a Hashtag of any Twichathon.
But I can't help wondering what the real purpose of a Tweeting
Twichathon would be.
Would it be to record the greatest number of tweetie-bird species or
the greatest number of short-and-sweet Tweets to the greatest number
of different Tweeting Twitchers?

The thought of it leaves me all a twitchin' and a twemblin'!

Tweeeeeeet! (Do I hear the call of the near extinct -and fading fast
- Feather-billed Nude-nut?)

Bob Inglis



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