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 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 > > > > > -- Jeffrey Lyon, Leadership Team jeffrey.l...@blacklotus.net | http://www.blacklotus.net Black Lotus Communications of The IRC Company, Inc. Look for us at HostingCon 2009 in Washington, DC on August 10th - 12th at Booth #401.