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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

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Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) lists at internetpolicyagency Jul 4, 2009, 3:17 AM
    Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) brandon at rd Jul 4, 2009, 5:22 AM
        Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) lists at internetpolicyagency Jul 4, 2009, 5:52 AM
            Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) michael.holstein at csuohio Jul 6, 2009, 8:00 AM
                Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) nevin at enginehosting Jul 6, 2009, 8:08 AM
                    Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was =?UTF-8?Q?:=20Fire, =20Power=20loss=20at=20Fisher=20Plaza=20in=20Seattle)?= tme at americafree Jul 7, 2009, 12:50 PM
                        Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was =?UTF-8?Q?:=20Fire, =20Power=20loss=20at=20Fisher=20Plaza=20in=20Seattle)?= marc at let Jul 7, 2009, 1:03 PM
                            Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was =?UTF-8?Q?:=20Fire, =20Power=20loss=20at=20Fisher=20Plaza=20in=20Seattle)?= tme at americafree Jul 7, 2009, 1:10 PM
                                Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was =?UTF-8?Q?:=20Fire, =20Power=20loss=20at=20Fisher=20Plaza=20in=20Seattle)?= tme at americafree Jul 7, 2009, 1:29 PM
    Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) tme at americafree Jul 4, 2009, 6:47 AM
    Re: Using twitter as an outage notification jcdill.lists at gmail Jul 4, 2009, 6:50 AM
        Re: Using twitter as an outage notification lists at internetpolicyagency Jul 4, 2009, 7:50 AM
            Re: Using twitter as an outage notification jcdill.lists at gmail Jul 4, 2009, 8:02 AM
                Re: Using twitter as an outage notification lists at internetpolicyagency Jul 4, 2009, 8:16 AM
                    Re: Using twitter as an outage notification jcdill.lists at gmail Jul 4, 2009, 3:19 PM
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                        Re: Using twitter as an outage notification lists at internetpolicyagency Jul 5, 2009, 3:23 AM
                            Re: Using twitter as an outage notification tme at americafree Jul 5, 2009, 4:01 AM
            Re: Using twitter as an outage notification n6mod at milewski Jul 4, 2009, 2:10 PM
                Re: Using twitter as an outage notification martin at airwire Jul 5, 2009, 5:59 AM
                    Re: Using twitter as an outage notification lists at internetpolicyagency Jul 5, 2009, 6:21 AM
                        Re: Using twitter as an outage notification martin at airwire Jul 5, 2009, 6:37 AM
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                                Re: Using twitter as an outage notification martin at airwire Jul 5, 2009, 7:41 AM
                                    Re: Using twitter as an outage notification lists at internetpolicyagency Jul 5, 2009, 9:57 AM
                                Re: Using twitter as an outage notification kngspook at gmail Jul 5, 2009, 1:50 PM
    Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) lists at internetpolicyagency Jul 4, 2009, 7:43 AM
    Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) jeffrey.lyon at blacklotus Jul 4, 2009, 7:47 AM
    Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) m.hallgren at free Jul 4, 2009, 7:58 AM
        Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) m.hallgren at free Jul 4, 2009, 8:26 AM
    Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) lists at internetpolicyagency Jul 4, 2009, 8:07 AM
        Re: Using twitter as an outage notification chaz at chaz6 Jul 4, 2009, 8:22 AM
            Re: Using twitter as an outage notification lists at internetpolicyagency Jul 4, 2009, 8:37 AM
                RE: Using twitter as an outage notification frnkblk at iname Jul 4, 2009, 1:59 PM
            Re: Using twitter as an outage notification marc at let Jul 4, 2009, 2:07 PM
            Re: Using twitter as an outage notification sethm at rollernet Jul 4, 2009, 2:09 PM
                Re: Using twitter as an outage notification lists at internetpolicyagency Jul 5, 2009, 3:10 AM
            Re: Using twitter as an outage notification mem at mv Jul 4, 2009, 2:12 PM
            Re: Using twitter as an outage notification wbailey at gci Jul 4, 2009, 2:16 PM
            RE: Using twitter as an outage notification tomb at byrneit Jul 4, 2009, 9:01 PM
            Re: Using twitter as an outage notification tvhawaii at shaka Jul 4, 2009, 9:29 PM
            Re: Using twitter as an outage notification lists at internetpolicyagency Jul 5, 2009, 3:01 AM
                Re: Using twitter as an outage notification adrian at creative Jul 5, 2009, 3:12 AM
                    Re: Using twitter as an outage notification rdobbins at arbor Jul 5, 2009, 3:31 AM
                        Re: Using twitter as an outage notification marc at let Jul 5, 2009, 3:40 AM
                    Re: Using twitter as an outage notification tme at americafree Jul 5, 2009, 3:39 AM
                    Re: Using twitter as an outage notification lists at internetpolicyagency Jul 5, 2009, 6:06 AM
                Re: Using twitter as an outage notification orion at pirk Jul 5, 2009, 3:43 AM
                    RE: Using twitter as an outage notification jbfixurpc at gmail Jul 5, 2009, 4:08 AM
                    Re: Using twitter as an outage notification lists at internetpolicyagency Jul 5, 2009, 6:16 AM
                Re: Using twitter as an outage notification mpalmer at hezmatt Jul 5, 2009, 4:32 AM
                    Re: Using twitter as an outage notification lists at internetpolicyagency Jul 5, 2009, 6:19 AM
                Re: Using twitter as an outage notification jcdill.lists at gmail Jul 5, 2009, 8:17 AM
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            RE: Using twitter as an outage notification Skywing at valhallalegends Jul 5, 2009, 9:20 AM
            Re: Using twitter as an outage notification bbillon-nanog at splio Jul 5, 2009, 9:59 AM
        Re: Using twitter as an outage notification mike at delusion Jul 4, 2009, 8:33 AM

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