[115659] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using twitter as an outage notification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aleksandr Milewski)
Sat Jul 4 17:12:02 2009
Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:10:20 -0700
From: Aleksandr Milewski <n6mod@milewski.org>
To: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <W4c$Ltegw2TKFAbX@perry.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 7/4/09 7:50 AM, Roland Perry wrote:
> What I'm trying to anticipate is the objection to *also* posting to
> Twitter, which might be raised on the grounds that it's too
> "unofficial", or "unsupported" or something like that.
Anecdotal, of course, but I found twitter to be very useful during the
SF Bay Area fiber cuts a few months back. I was able to fairly quickly
get reports of who was down (UnitedLayer) and who wasn't (everyone
else), and made some good contacts, some of whom I've done business with
since (Cernio).
Set up a twitter account for outage/event notifications, and don't
*ever* use it for marketing.
