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Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was =?UTF-8?Q?:=20Fire, =20Power=20loss=20at=20Fisher=20Plaza=20in=20Seattle)?=
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme () americafree tv>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 15:50:01 -0400
On Jul 6, 2009, at 11:08 AM, nevin () enginehosting com wrote:
On Monday, July 6, 2009 10:00am, "Michael Holstein" <michael.holstein () csuohio edu > said:However it doesn't scaleAnyone who's seen the "fail whale" might argue the same about Twitter.Cheers, Michael Holstein Cleveland State UniversityWith 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
Just to add something to this, twitter has been slow all afternoon and now I am getting the "fail whale"
Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try againI presume that this has something to do with the Michael Jackson Memorial Service now underway.
I just thought I would point out in real time the obvious danger of using a backup service that itself could fail under load, especially if your outage and the load could be correlated, say in a disaster or public emergency situation.
Regards Marshall
Regards Marshall Eubanks CEO / AmericaFree.TV
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- 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)