Their free trail was certainly still available a few weeks ago but maybe there's just a problem with the link on their website. Best to ring them anyway, really good blokes and easier to set it up top that way.l
Richard Thew said
Wed Nov 18 8:46 AM, 2015
I was curious about this bird info stuff so I clicked the link that said " and more information can be found here"; and when the brief rundown page came up, I tried most of the other links to get more details on them and all it did was take me to a blank page saying "document not found" with the website address (although the small menu banner at the top seems ok, but non of the other bits and links) So im wondering please, whether their website has moved or something? ?? Thanks.
-- Edited by Richard Thew on Wednesday 18th of November 2015 09:20:49 AM
Ian McKerchar said
Sun Nov 15 12:37 PM, 2015
The Twitter service discussed within this thread is run by Bird Information Ltd and their Twitter service sends out whatever level of bird information you require (from common birds to mega rarities, locally or nationally). Its just about the cheapest dedicated service available, has never let me down (and I've tried all the others) and more information can be found here and a review of the service, albeit five years old now, can be found here. Might be worth mentioning Manchester Birding if you get in touch with them too
Mike Crawley said
Sun Nov 15 11:52 AM, 2015
Neil Calbrade wrote:
As Ian says all the news services take stuff of each other's services anyway and in many instances the local grapevine in probably quicker, but one good news service on Twitter is the Rare Bird Network or in twitter terms @rbnUK
If you find something and can only be a local rarity which may not get picked up by the national services, a simple tweet to them with a hashtag for the particular county (for GM you put #rbnGTM) on the end of the message should get retweeted. Also if you are out and about and want to check that nothing has turned up in Greater Manchester and you have twitter on your phone you can search for just search for the hashtag.
RBA are always happy to send out the most local of local news - not just rarities.
personally I would also phone and leave a message with an information service, to avoid auto spellong mistakes in texts
Mark Rigby said
Sat Nov 14 10:41 PM, 2015
A lot of phone providers have stopped the text message from tweet facility for a while now. I know O2 have! You will have to make do with a banner and the default notification tone.
Craig Higson said
Sat Nov 14 7:48 PM, 2015
There should be no limit to tweets, but if you have set twitter to text you with notifications that might explain it. You can set twitter to notify you via a banner on your mobile rather than a text message which is just as effective, but doesn't run out - unless of course your data runs out.
Nick Green said
Sat Nov 14 5:39 PM, 2015
I have had the Birdnet twitter service for a while now, and have found it very good.
There used to be a 200 tweet/ day limit to the messages. This was used up a few times in spring & autumn. Recently I've been getting messages which say "you've reached our SMS system limit of 50 Tweets received/day"
I can't find out any info on this. Has anybody else had this happen, and/or know anything about this?
Neil Calbrade said
Thu Jun 27 12:16 AM, 2013
As Ian says all the news services take stuff of each other's services anyway and in many instances the local grapevine in probably quicker, but one good news service on Twitter is the Rare Bird Network or in twitter terms @rbnUK
If you find something and can only be a local rarity which may not get picked up by the national services, a simple tweet to them with a hashtag for the particular county (for GM you put #rbnGTM) on the end of the message should get retweeted. Also if you are out and about and want to check that nothing has turned up in Greater Manchester and you have twitter on your phone you can search for just search for the hashtag.
Ian McKerchar said
Sun Jun 16 11:24 PM, 2013
Make it easy for yourself Craig. Ring (text or email) just one of them (Bird Information, RBA, Birdnet) and they all pick the news up very quickly off each other anyway. If in doubt text me and I'll do it for you .
Craig Higson said
Sun Jun 16 10:52 PM, 2013
Cheers Ian. It was ok when it was just a case of phoning bird line nw or the main pager firms, but these days I don't know whether I should be ringing, tweeting, texting or emailing!
Craig Higson said
Sun Jun 16 9:38 PM, 2013
I suddenly realised today that should I ever be in the fortunate position of finding a rarity (all those that know me can stop laughing now, ta) I wouldn't have the foggiest idea how to report it on the twitter system. Do you just phone Birdnet? Or is there some other techy way of doing it?
Ian McKerchar said
Sun Jun 16 3:37 PM, 2013
Just report it to one of the usual national bird information services Craig (Birdnet Information in particular if you use their Twitter feed) and it'll all get done for you by magic
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Sunday 16th of June 2013 03:38:53 PM
-- Edited by Richard Thew on Wednesday 18th of November 2015 09:20:49 AM
RBA are always happy to send out the most local of local news - not just rarities.
personally I would also phone and leave a message with an information service, to avoid auto spellong mistakes in texts
I have had the Birdnet twitter service for a while now, and have found it very good.
There used to be a 200 tweet/ day limit to the messages. This was used up a few times in spring & autumn. Recently I've been getting messages which say "you've reached our SMS system limit of 50 Tweets received/day"
I can't find out any info on this. Has anybody else had this happen, and/or know anything about this?
If you find something and can only be a local rarity which may not get picked up by the national services, a simple tweet to them with a hashtag for the particular county (for GM you put #rbnGTM) on the end of the message should get retweeted. Also if you are out and about and want to check that nothing has turned up in Greater Manchester and you have twitter on your phone you can search for just search for the hashtag.
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Sunday 16th of June 2013 03:38:53 PM