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Re: Using twitter as an outage notification
From: Roland Perry <lists () internetpolicyagency com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 15:50:08 +0100
In article <4A4F5E3C.5040301 () gmail com>, JC Dill <jcdill.lists () gmail com> writes
That'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 does the team think?I don't understand why this is an either/or question. Why not post to both?
Yes, that can be done.What I'm trying to anticipate is the objection to *also* posting to Twitter, which might be raised on the grounds that it's too "unofficial", or "unsupported" or something like that.
You control where we post. Just email the right address and we'll do the right thing. Post Everywhere? post () posterous com as usual Twitter? twitter () posterous com Flickr? flickr () posterous com Facebook? facebook () posterous com Tumblr? tumblr () posterous com Any other blog? blog () posterous com Posterous only? posterous () posterous com Combine them! flickr+twitter () posterous com
It's this richness which confuses the ordinary person. How are they to know which bit of the scattergun approach is the right one to use? Or whether "posting everywhere" has some hidden disadvantage.
-- Roland Perry
Current thread:
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification, (continued)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Roland Perry (Jul 05)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Steve Pirk (Jul 05)
- RE: Using twitter as an outage notification Joe Blanchard (Jul 05)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Roland Perry (Jul 05)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Matthew Palmer (Jul 05)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Roland Perry (Jul 05)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification JC Dill (Jul 05)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Roland Perry (Jul 05)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification mike (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification JC Dill (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Roland Perry (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification JC Dill (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Roland Perry (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification JC Dill (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Stefan (Jul 04)
- RE: Using twitter as an outage notification Frank Bulk (Jul 04)
- RE: Using twitter as an outage notification Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Roland Perry (Jul 05)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Marshall Eubanks (Jul 05)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Roland Perry (Jul 05)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Aleksandr Milewski (Jul 04)