3beebies aka Breakfast

[Panjandrum]

No It was someone else's tweet - and R3 retweeted it. I just don't know if tweets get retweeted automatically if they mention R3 - for good or ill. Or whether someone at R3 reweeted the original tweet.

The Radio 3 twitter feed would have retweeted it deliberately. One can do a search on key words (e.g. Radio 3) or put a "#" tag in front of a phrase or word in order to "trend". What their motivation was for so doing, who can say?

[Panjandrum]

I'm not sure how retweeting works, but R3 have just retweeted: "First we get Star Wars theme & now Harry Potter. Sometimes I wonder if R3 has morphed into ClassicFM! :-(."

I think it must have been sabotage - maybe one of the For3 mob has hacked into the Radio 3 Twitter feed - as this tweet has now mysteriously disappeared.

[mangerton]

This is absolutely not because one is bereft of human compassion for people who have suffered, or are grieving. It's the sheer cynical exploitation (in my view) à la Oprah Winfrey of sharing people's most intimate feelings with what amount to the audio equivalent of voyeurs. In my view.

Exactly. We look back in horror at places like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlem_Royal_Hospital

Read, in particular, about the visits on Tuesday. With Big Brother, X Factor, and now it seems Radio 3, have we really progressed very much?

[antongould]

re FF 344
I don't see/hear it as".....sheer cynical exploitation" - I heard it and that never crossed my mind. I don't think for one moment this was specifically targeted by Breakfast. I have heard the majority of others and this is unique - this week as I mentioned elsewhere we had the 71st Bishop of Lincoln who didn't sound exploited to me.
Whilst I have no problem with tweets and texts I find it mildly amusing that a lot of people seem to actively "search them out" on Twitter, Facebook etc. something, shamefully perhaps, I would never bother to do.

[french frank]

re FF 344
I don't see/hear it as".....sheer cynical exploitation" - I heard it and that never crossed my mind. I don't think for one moment this was specifically targeted by Breakfast. I have heard the majority of others and this is unique

We're given to believe that there is 'an appetite' for this kind of interactivity and that many people email in to participate. So this one was chosen from among all the rest.

Many people are interested in hearing about other people's tragedies and griefs. But whether that's a legitimate way to attract them to Radio 3 to listen to classical music, I would doubt. Maybe it'll become the Oprah Winfrey 'must listen' moment on Radio 3 which half the audience is appalled about and the other half tunes in specially to listen to.

Whilst I have no problem with tweets and texts I find it mildly amusing that a lot of people seem to actively "search them out" on Twitter, Facebook etc. something, shamefully perhaps, I would never bother to do.

Know thy enemy

(Btw, the tweet was still there - I think it might have been retweeted along with SMP's tweet. I note R3 has 9 times more tweets than followers. The proportions are usually reversed. How much time does R3 staff spend tweeting - and couldn't they spend it on making the online content more accurate?)

[salymap]

For goodness' sake, who names these things. 'Twitter', 'Tweet', 'Retweeted'. They sound like a child's game. I only heard of them recently. [Sorry to sound like that Judge but.........]

I have heard of Facebook because a young relative asked me to join. No thanks.

[antongould]

scary people Dear Lady stay well clear of them!

[Panjandrum]

For goodness' sake, who names these things. 'Twitter', 'Tweet', 'Retweeted'. They sound like a child's game. I only heard of them recently. [Sorry to sound like that Judge but.........]

I have heard of Facebook because a young relative asked me to join. No thanks.

Why knock something until you've tried it?

[MrGongGong]

Why knock something until you've tried it?

does that include incest and folk dancing ?

[antongould]

does that include incest and folk dancing ?

One feels or rather hopes the latter is more common in Sidcup!

[doversoul1]

salymap
Re: Tweet
Whenever I hear this word, another word always comes into my mind: bird brain. But as you often say, what do I know.

Re: phone in
ff

Many people are interested in hearing about other people's tragedies and griefs. But whether that's a legitimate way to attract them to Radio 3 to listen to classical music, I would doubt.

Very well put. There are plenty of other places where people can confess their private matters to all and sundry, or to hear them for that matter, whereas there is only one place where we could listen to classical music without being exposed to chat and confessions. A quiet carriage syndrome…

[ed.] this (my bit) is not at all well put. No it is not a legitimate way to attract listeners to a station that is meant to provide serious listening of classical music. But how do we argue rationally/objectively that this is not a legitimate way to get people interested in listening to classical music?

[MrGongGong]

I once sent a text message to someone I don't know by mistake
I don't really see the point of doing it on purpose

[Richard Tarleton]

salymap
Re: Tweet
Whenever I hear this word, another word always comes into my mind: bird brain. But as you often say, what do I know.

Talking of tweet [birds - geddit], for what it's worth, a sort of convergent evolution seems to be at work across the BBC. Spring and Autumnwatch used, in the days of Simon King and Bill Oddie, be (mainly) about wildlife. Now it's about the presenters and audience participation - "presenterwatch" as someone has perceptively called it. The presenters are interchangeable with the R3 ones, with Michaela Strachan (the latest addition) as a sort of thinking man's Katie Derham.

[mangerton]

does that include incest and folk dancing ?

I have tried it and have now deleted my account. I cannot recommend it.

[barber olly]

What a pity that the CD which exploded this morning c.8.45 was a rare recording of the little-known Kaiser Waltz by Richard Strauss.

What a brilliant idea - someone could infiltrate the BBC Record Library and detonate all the CDs of works that are overplayed, or maybe if they are not to be played in full. No more Bolero, no 1st movt of Beethoven 5th in isolation!