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Re: Using twitter as an outage notification


From: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 20:25:33 -0700

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From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 6:29 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Using twitter as an outage notification

Seen on NANOG:

On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:29:22 -1000, Michael Painter said:

"Bonnie Smalley has Internet bragging rights: She has been blocked by
Twitter for hand-typing too many tweets in an hour. They thought she
was a computer program made to spew spam.

Ms. Smalley, it turns out, is a 100 percent human customer service
representative for Comcast. She is one of 10 representatives who
reach
out to customers through social networks, rather than waiting for
them
to find Comcast's support site.


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/technology/personaltech/02basics.htm
l?partner=rss&emc=rss

There's a Dilbert strip in there, fighting to get out.. ;)


Hmm, so what's the opposite of a Turing test?

I guess it's a Turing test.....


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