>-----Original Message----- >From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnk...@iname.com] >Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 4:51 PM >To: 'JC Dill' >Cc: na...@merit.edu >Subject: RE: Using twitter as an outage notification > >So does twitter address the mass public,
[TLB:] The whole point of Twitter is that it works with SMS. > >My point in another fork of this thread is that for most people, the >traditional forms of communication are *it*. I'm not saying that >twitter >hasn't been used and found a way to reach the some portion of the >population >-- the traditional methods (announcement at top of phone tree & note on >homepage) should be maintained and as one more additional way to >communication. I think you mentioned that yourself a few posts ago. =) > >Frank > [TLB:] I think everyone agrees it's not an "Either/Or". The argument that Twitter is a good, inexpensive, way to mass communicate operational issues with those that are able to use it, is kind of axiomatic. I'm not, in general, a fan of Twitter. To me, twits are those in my killfile (yes, I know they call it "tweets"), however, as a way of using Other People's Money to reduce your OPEX while improving CSI, it seems like a no-brainer to me.
