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Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)
From: Roland Perry <lists () internetpolicyagency com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 13:52:39 +0100
In article <200907041222.NAA23352 () sunf10 rd bbc co uk>, Brandon Butterworth <brandon () rd bbc co uk> writes
Paying a lot more to host the website with higher "burst" capacity during an emergency, isn't an option. The only other idea I've had is to sign all the customers up to receive an SMS via some sort of broadcast service (the news will fit easily in one SMS).If the event is suitably calamitous we will do that for you - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/5194672.stm
The "event" (typically closing a High School because of snow, but we have swine flu these days too) is currently reported mainly by local radio stations. However it doesn't scale - there are perhaps two hundred of them trying to phone in to one radio station during the same 15 minutes after they made the decision, half an hour before the school is supposed to open for the day.
Another problem with a literally "broadcast" system is that it takes them too long to read out the names of the schools which are closed, even if trying to cover just one county.
Nor does it matter to anyone except a particular closed group of perhaps 1000 households whether any one school is closed - so telling everyone is a bit of a waste.
So it seemed to me that a Tweet from the school would be an ideal solution.
But a system like yours, if it could be divided up into a few tens of thousands of SIGs (one for each school), is the kind of "more traditional" solution I was thinking about.
-- Roland Perry
Current thread:
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Brandon Butterworth (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Roland Perry (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Michael Holstein (Jul 06)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) nevin (Jul 06)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was =?UTF-8?Q?:=20Fire, =20Power=20loss=20at=20Fisher=20Plaza=20in=20Seattle)?= Marshall Eubanks (Jul 07)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was =?UTF-8?Q?:=20Fire, =20Power=20loss=20at=20Fisher=20Plaza=20in=20Seattle)?= Marc Manthey (Jul 07)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was =?UTF-8?Q?:=20Fire, =20Power=20loss=20at=20Fisher=20Plaza=20in=20Seattle)?= Marshall Eubanks (Jul 07)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was : Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Mikael Abrahamsson (Jul 07)
- Re: Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was : Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Brandon Galbraith (Jul 07)
- Re: Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was : Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Mikael Abrahamsson (Jul 07)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was =?UTF-8?Q?:=20Fire, =20Power=20loss=20at=20Fisher=20Plaza=20in=20Seattle)?= Marshall Eubanks (Jul 07)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Michael Holstein (Jul 06)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Roland Perry (Jul 04)