[115676] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using twitter as an outage notification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Sun Jul 5 06:13:54 2009
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 18:12:38 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <d7iNriXHoHUKFAz+@perry.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009, Roland Perry wrote:
> Unfortunately, the number of students polling the website for news means
> it can't cope with the traffic. I don't believe they can justify paying
> more for better web hosting, just to manage this once-a-year half hour
> event.
Is Twitter making a profit or not?
This discussion about (ab)using a publicly available message system which
isn't currently being charged for would makes me worried^Wamused as hell.
(Not that I can't see possible ways of making money off twitter - especially
if you offer reliable message dissemination services to companies for a fee,
but AFAIK they aren't doing this at the moment.)
Adrian
