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Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)
In article <786BA8C0-B534-40FF-9126-1E33BD11CB3C at americafree.tv>,
Marshall Eubanks <tme at americafree.tv> 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?
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
- References:
- Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle
- From: dhubbard at dino.hostasaurus.com (David Hubbard)
- Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle
- From: tomb at byrneit.net (Tomas L. Byrnes)
- Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle
- From: herrin-nanog at dirtside.com (William Herrin)
- Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle
- From: sean at donelan.com (Sean Donelan)
- Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle
- From: tomb at byrneit.net (Tomas L. Byrnes)
- Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle
- From: jeffrey.lyon at blacklotus.net (Jeffrey Lyon)
- Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle
- From: bc-list at beztech.net (Ben Carleton)
- Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle
- From: tme at americafree.tv (Marshall Eubanks)
- Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle
- From: jeffrey.lyon at blacklotus.net (Jeffrey Lyon)
- Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle
- From: tme at americafree.tv (Marshall Eubanks)