[115689] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using twitter as an outage notification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Sun Jul 5 09:08:06 2009
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 14:06:20 +0100
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090705101237.GC14222@skywalker.creative.net.au>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In article <20090705101237.GC14222@skywalker.creative.net.au>, Adrian
Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au> writes
>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.
I've seen debates about whether it's possible to monetise Twitter.
Operationally, it's an issue if they fail financially, but I don't think
the investment in setting up an account is large enough to worry about.
Counter-intuitively, I've probably seen more subscription-based services
fail, than free ones.
--
Roland Perry
