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Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme () americafree tv>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:47:58 -0400
On Jul 4, 2009, at 6:17 AM, Roland Perry wrote:
In article <786BA8C0-B534-40FF-9126-1E33BD11CB3C () americafree tv>, Marshall Eubanks <tme () americafree tv> writesThat's a great idea, use some lame Web 2.0 trend to communicate with actual real life customers. </sarcasm>I would assume they figured it was better than just remaining silent.I'm about to recommend to an organisation that it [a twitter account] is better than posting news of an outage on their low- volume website, which will get swamped when too many people poll it for news.
What if the outage takes out their website too ?I don't think that their website was up, and I would guess that they didn't have email either. That
is a bad situation to be in.Note, BTW, that twitter itself is subject to frequent planned and unplanned outages.
Marshall
What does the team think?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).-- Roland Perry
Regards Marshall Eubanks CEO / AmericaFree.TV
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- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle, (continued)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle William Herrin (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Sean Donelan (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Stephen Stuart (Jul 03)
- RE: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Jeffrey Lyon (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Ben Carleton (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Marshall Eubanks (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Jeffrey Lyon (Jul 03)
- Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle Marshall Eubanks (Jul 03)
- 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) Marshall Eubanks (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) Jeffrey Lyon (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Michael Hallgren (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) Michael Hallgren (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 Chris Hills (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Roland Perry (Jul 04)
- RE: Using twitter as an outage notification Frank Bulk (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Marc Manthey (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Seth Mattinen (Jul 04)