Having never been on a twitchathon, but being somewhat familiar with Twitter
(though a total novice user) - can't people "follow" each other on Twitter such
that Twitter will send you an SMS when someone updates their status?
Hence, you SMS an update to Twitter and Twitter sends an SMS to everyone who is
subscribed to you. Hence, if you want to say "I found species X at location Y"
and inform all participants in the twitchathon, you'd just have to SMS
"sparrows in melbourne" (or similar) and likewise, throughout the event, you'd
receive other people's updates if you've subscribed.
It could get expensive though! :)
(If I totally don't get twitchathons and the above doesn't make sense,
please just ignore me - or better yet, let me know so I don't come up
with silly suggestions again! :D)
Chris.
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From: Peter Shute <>
To: John Tongue <>
Cc: Birding-Aus <>; Robert Inglis <>
Sent: Wed, 11 November, 2009 4:48:16 PM
Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Twitching Tweeters
Yes, we've already encountered that problem. You could do every 10th bird, or
every hour, etc. I certainly wouldn't be typing in species names very often.
Small teams probably wouldn't bother.
John Tongue wrote on Wednesday, 11 November 2009 4:36 PM:
> 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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