[115654] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using twitter as an outage notification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Sat Jul 4 11:39:57 2009
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 16:37:38 +0100
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <h2ns2s$kcv$1@ger.gmane.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In article <h2ns2s$kcv$1@ger.gmane.org>, Chris Hills <chaz@chaz6.com>
writes
>> 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.
That's fair comment, but how do you get your customers to install quirky
niche solutions to what's a once-a-year problem?
They all seem pretty happy using a multitude of other "non-domestic"
solutions, which probably accounts for 99% of the stuff they have on
their PCs.
So "not sufficiently mature" we can get away with as an excuse, but
"Made in America" isn't going to put many people off :)
--
Roland Perry
