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Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)

From: nevin () enginehosting com
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 10:08:50 -0500 (CDT)

On Monday, July 6, 2009 10:00am, "Michael Holstein" <michael.holstein () csuohio edu> said:

However it doesn't scale


Anyone who's seen the "fail whale" might argue the same about Twitter.
 
Cheers,

Michael Holstein
Cleveland State University

 
With a past week of highly visible outages in the data center/provider industry, take a look at the section: "Crisis 
Communications Moves Fast" in this story, for another view of using communications channels like Twitter.  
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/07/06/the-day-after-a-brutal-week-for-uptime/

-- Nevin Lyne
-- CTO
-- EngineHosting.com

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