How many of you are Twitter users, I wonder?
What is Twitter? Twitter is a short message service that pushes messages to
Twitter readers (Twitter "clients") or devices. Twitter is known as a
"micro-blogging service" because many people use it to continuously update
their followers about what they are currently doing. The significant
differences between Twitter and RSS is that Twitter is effectively a "push"
service - in other words, messages are sent from Twitter to the appropriate
client, rather than RSS which requires the reader to actually request the
content. Furthermore, Twitter messages ("tweets") are restricted to 140
characters in length.
Why do we need this technology? To be honest, no-one is really sure at the
moment. Certainly Twitter has found use as a way of disseminating news -
most news services feature Twitter feeds, for example. There is certainly a
lot of debate about the usefulness of this sort of service. I believe that
Twitter has value, and I think that he only way we'll discover the true
value is to start to deliver content, such as the Birdline feeds, using this
service.
Thanks to the RSS feeds from Birdline that I wrote about yesterday, I have
set up Twitter feeds for all the Birdlines. Following are the feed names,
[usernames] and URLs for the Twitter feeds, if you are interested in
following them:
Birdline Australia [birdlineaus] http://twitter.com/birdlineaus
Birdline Central & Southern Queensland [birdlinecsq]
http://twitter.com/birdlinecsq
Birdline Indonesia [birdlineindon] http://twitter.com/birdlineindon
Birdline North Queensland [birdlinenq] http://twitter.com/birdlinenq
Birdline NSW [birdlinensw] http://twitter.com/birdlinensw
Birdline NT [birdlinent] http://twitter.com/birdlinent
Birdline Tasmania [birdlinetas] http://twitter.com/birdlinetas
Birdline Victoria [birdlinevic] http://twitter.com/birdlinevic
I have found some difficulty searching for the Birdline user names using the
standard Twitter web client (www.twitter.com). I found the best way of
signing up to follow the Birdlines was to sign-into Twitter, then enter the
appropriate Twitter feed URL in the address and clicking the "Follow"
button. If you have any difficulty, please write to me off-list.
Please note that the Twitter feeds were set up using a third-party service,
TwitterFeed - as a result I cannot guarantee that *all* Birdline entries
will appear - please consider these feeds as experimental only.
There is no point in tweeting to these addresses - you cannot submit
Birdline sightings by Twitter at this stage (maybe in the future!)
Paul Dodd
Docklands, Victoria
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