Re: "File server blew up over the weekend. Over 1000 SQL backup job failures in the inbox this morning. "

[Martin Tomasek <tomasek () ufe cz>]

Larry Seltzer wrote:
> Many tweets with this message in the last 24 hours or so. Any guess at 
> what it's about?
>
>  
>
> http://twitter.com/home#search?q=SQL%20backup%20job%20failures%20

It seems every single of the tweets has note that it has been posted via 
API. If you look at tweets that follows the one you mentioned, they are 
similar for different users. I guess this is a bot.


Well.. I found one tweet from aug 31, which came from tweetdeck 
(http://tweetdeck.com/beta/) instead of API. This one: 
http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:K7QG1eTN4IUJ:twitter.com/zewsk/status/3664500948+File+server+blew+up+over+the+weekend.+Over+1000+SQL+backup+job+failures+in+the+inbox+this+morning.+site:twitter.com&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk 
<http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:K7QG1eTN4IUJ:twitter.com/zewsk/status/3664500948+File+server+blew+up+over+the+weekend.+Over+1000+SQL+backup+job+failures+in+the+inbox+this+morning.+site:twitter.com&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk>
(querry: File server blew up over the weekend. Over 1000 SQL backup job 
failures in the inbox this morning. tweetdeck site:twitter.com)

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Martin Tomasek

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