Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)

[brandon at rd.bbc.co.uk (Brandon Butterworth)]

> 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).

If the event is suitably calamitous we will do that for you -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/5194672.stm


brandon