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Twitching Tweeters

To: Robert Inglis <>, Birding-Aus <>
Subject: Twitching Tweeters
From: Peter Shute <>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:40:10 +1100
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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