[115646] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Hallgren)
Sat Jul 4 10:59:37 2009
From: Michael Hallgren <m.hallgren@free.fr>
To: Jeffrey Lyon <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net>
In-Reply-To: <16720fe00907040747k67ca1206kb871420deb5e8163@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:58:18 +0200
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Le samedi 04 juillet 2009 à 10:47 -0400, Jeffrey Lyon a écrit :
> Personally, I find it difficult to take Twitter seriously. It seems
> like more of a kids toy than a business tool. Something like a
> blogspot account would make a lot more sense.
Yes.
What about (continue to) use old email (inc lists), coupled with
some roughly out-of-band like cell/pots/sms service? And in parallel
old irc, et al.
Any severe problem with, asking us to move over to "portal
services"?
mh
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> Jeff
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>
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> On 7/4/09, Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv> wrote:
> >
> > On Jul 4, 2009, at 6:17 AM, Roland Perry wrote:
> >
> >
> > > In article
> > <786BA8C0-B534-40FF-9126-1E33BD11CB3C@americafree.tv>,
> > Marshall Eubanks <tme@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 if the outage takes out their website too ?
> >
> > I don't think that their website was up, and I would guess that they didn't
> > have email either. That
> > is a bad situation to be in.
> >
> > Note, BTW, that twitter itself is subject to frequent planned and unplanned
> > outages.
> >
> > Marshall
> >
> >
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Regards
> > Marshall Eubanks
> > CEO / AmericaFree.TV
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
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michael hallgren, mh2198-ripe
