[115648] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Sat Jul 4 11:10:10 2009
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 16:07:52 +0100
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
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<16720fe00907040747k67ca1206kb871420deb5e8163@mail.gmail.com>, Jeffrey
Lyon <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net> writes
>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.
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?
--
Roland Perry
