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 lists), coupled with some roughly out-of-band like cell/pots/sms service? And in parallel old irc, et al. Any severe problem with, asking us to move over to "portal services"? mh > > Jeff > > > > On 7/4/09, Marshall Eubanks <t...@americafree.tv> wrote: > > > > 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 it was better than just remaining silent. > > > > > > > > > > I'm about to recommend to an organisation that it [a twitter account] is > > better than posting news of an outage on their low-volume website, which > > will get swamped when too many people poll it for news. > > > > > > > > > > What if the outage takes out their website too ? > > > > I don't think that their website was up, and I would guess that they didn't > > have email either. That > > is a bad situation to be in. > > > > Note, BTW, that twitter itself is subject to frequent planned and unplanned > > outages. > > > > Marshall > > > > > > > What does the team think? > > > > > > 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). > > > -- > > > Roland Perry > > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards > > Marshall Eubanks > > CEO / AmericaFree.TV > > > > > > > > > > > > -- michael hallgren, mh2198-ripe
