It's pretty easy, Tones - if you don't want the clutter, don't use it. This
isn't a mandatory program!
There will be a high proportion of Birdline viewers that are perfectly happy
getting this information from the website. There will be others that make
use of the news feeds, simply because it is convenient to get information in
this manner. Finally, there will be a smaller number of people that
subscribe to the Twitter feeds. To date, this number is in the small
double-digits, but I do expect it to grow over time.
Paul Dodd
Docklands, Victoria
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Russell
Sent: Thursday, 3 September 2009 9:01 AM
To: 'Paul Dodd'; 'Birding-Aus (Forum)'
Cc: 'Richard and Margaret Alcorn'
Subject: Birdline Twitter feeds
I don't think we need this clutter at all, nor facebook for that matter.
T.
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Paul Dodd
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 8:27 PM
To: 'Birding-Aus (Forum)'
Cc: 'Richard and Margaret Alcorn'
Subject: Birdline Twitter feeds
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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