Re: Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was : Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)

2009-07-07 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Mikael Abrahamssonswm...@swm.pp.se wrote: On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Marshall Eubanks wrote: In a real crisis, redundancy rules. ... and simplicity. It's always fun when those outages pages rely on sql backends etc, so they're capable of tens or hundreds of users,

Re: Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was : Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)

2009-07-07 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Brandon Galbraith wrote: http://www.coralcdn.org/ Nice, looks very much like the thing I was advocating. Hard part is getting authorities et al interested in such an ad hoc solution. Preferrably they could do both and then we can see which one works best in an emergency

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)

2009-07-06 Thread Michael Holstein
However it doesn't scale Anyone who's seen the fail whale might argue the same about Twitter. Cheers, Michael Holstein Cleveland State University

Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)

2009-07-04 Thread Roland Perry
In article 786ba8c0-b534-40ff-9126-1e33bd11c...@americafree.tv, Marshall Eubanks t...@americafree.tv writes That's a great idea, use some lame Web 2.0 trend to communicate with actual real life customers. /sarcasm I would assume they figured it was better than just remaining silent. I'm

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)

2009-07-04 Thread Brandon Butterworth
Paying a lot more to host the website with higher burst capacity during an emergency, isn't an option. The only other idea I've had is to sign all the customers up to receive an SMS via some sort of broadcast service (the news will fit easily in one SMS). If the event is suitably

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)

2009-07-04 Thread Roland Perry
In article 200907041222.naa23...@sunf10.rd.bbc.co.uk, Brandon Butterworth bran...@rd.bbc.co.uk writes Paying a lot more to host the website with higher burst capacity during an emergency, isn't an option. The only other idea I've had is to sign all the customers up to receive an SMS via some

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)

2009-07-04 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jul 4, 2009, at 6:17 AM, Roland Perry wrote: In article 786ba8c0-b534-40ff-9126-1e33bd11c...@americafree.tv, Marshall Eubanks t...@americafree.tv writes That's a great idea, use some lame Web 2.0 trend to communicate with actual real life customers. /sarcasm I would assume they figured

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)

2009-07-04 Thread Roland Perry
In article f832a12a-0aed-4a01-955d-e24dca618...@americafree.tv, Marshall Eubanks t...@americafree.tv writes That's a great idea, use some lame Web 2.0 trend to communicate with actual real life customers. /sarcasm I would assume they figured it was better than just remaining silent. I'm

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)

2009-07-04 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
Personally, I find it difficult to take Twitter seriously. It seems like more of a kids toy than a business tool. Something like a blogspot account would make a lot more sense. Jeff On 7/4/09, Marshall Eubanks t...@americafree.tv wrote: On Jul 4, 2009, at 6:17 AM, Roland Perry wrote: In

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)

2009-07-04 Thread Michael Hallgren
Le samedi 04 juillet 2009 à 10:47 -0400, Jeffrey Lyon a écrit : Personally, I find it difficult to take Twitter seriously. It seems like more of a kids toy than a business tool. Something like a blogspot account would make a lot more sense. Yes. What about (continue to) use old email (inc

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)

2009-07-04 Thread Roland Perry
In article 16720fe00907040747k67ca1206kb871420deb5e8...@mail.gmail.com, Jeffrey Lyon jeffrey.l...@blacklotus.net writes Personally, I find it difficult to take Twitter seriously. It seems like more of a kids toy than a business tool. Something like a blogspot account would make a lot more

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)

2009-07-04 Thread Michael Hallgren
Le samedi 04 juillet 2009 à 16:58 +0200, Michael Hallgren a écrit : Le samedi 04 juillet 2009 à 10:47 -0400, Jeffrey Lyon a écrit : Personally, I find it difficult to take Twitter seriously. It seems like more of a kids toy than a business tool. Something like a blogspot account would make