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Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)
From: Jeffrey Lyon <jeffrey.lyon () blacklotus net>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 10:47:53 -0400
Personally, I find it difficult to take Twitter seriously. It seems like more of a kids toy than a business tool. Something like a blogspot account would make a lot more sense. Jeff On 7/4/09, Marshall Eubanks <tme () americafree tv> wrote:
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] isbetter 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. MarshallWhat does the team think? Paying a lot more to host the website with higher "burst" capacity duringan emergency, isn't an option.The only other idea I've had is to sign all the customers up to receive anSMS via some sort of broadcast service (the news will fit easily in one SMS).-- Roland PerryRegards 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 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)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Roland Perry (Jul 05)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Mark E. Mallett (Jul 04)