[115651] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using twitter as an outage notification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Hills)
Sat Jul 4 11:22:56 2009
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From: Chris Hills <chaz@chaz6.com>
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.
