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Using twitter as an outage notification

Subject: Using twitter as an outage notification
From: chaz at chaz6.com (Chris Hills)
Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:22:04 +0200
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On 04/07/09 17:07, Roland Perry wrote:
> That's the kind of "marketing-led" response I was hoping to hear.
>
> But the UK National Rail system now uses Tweets to tell customers about
> disruptions on the trains, and several major UK government departments
> and news organisations use it for announcements and "Breaking News".
>
> So has it become "respectable" yet?

When there are open-source equivalents available (e.g. Laconica, 
OpenMicroBlogger - both of which incidentally are compatible since they 
are based upon the OMB spec), I do wonder why a commercial or government 
entity would use a closed-source, non-domestic service.

Follow-Ups:
- Using twitter as an outage notification
  - From: lists at internetpolicyagency.com (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: 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)
- Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)
  - From: lists at internetpolicyagency.com (Roland Perry)
- Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)
  - From: tme at americafree.tv (Marshall Eubanks)
- Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)
  - From: jeffrey.lyon at blacklotus.net (Jeffrey Lyon)
- Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)
  - From: lists at internetpolicyagency.com (Roland Perry)

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