[115675] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using twitter as an outage notification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Sun Jul 5 06:12:17 2009
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 11:10:10 +0100
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A4FC4F3.2010301@rollernet.us>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In article <4A4FC4F3.2010301@rollernet.us>, Seth Mattinen
<sethm@rollernet.us> writes
>Twitter will attract the "what's cool right now" demographic.
But has it gone from "cool" to "useful" (for this kind of application),
in a way that Facebook and other such sites haven't?
I remember an employer of mine when I was trying to persuade him to
build a modem into a PC so people could exchange what we'd now call
emails, and he said "Roland, come back and ask me again, when I can pay
your wages through that modem thing".
Unfortunately I didn't get the opportunity, as I left there twenty years
ago, and Paypal wasn't invented until about ten years ago.
--
Roland Perry
