Using Twitter to Send Alerts When Your Site Goes Down
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Re: Using Twitter to Send Alerts When Your Site Goes Down
#2I send emails.
a) Way more reliable.
b) Also land on my phone [with vibration/sound alert]
c) I can put a lot more details in them since there is no 140 chars limit
d) Much easier to do: one line of code - old and simple tech from the 80s (sendmail) beats ugly kids of tomorrow (Twitter) any day of the week!
Mr. Schmidt was right. :-P
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#3Leaving the Twitter feed public could actually be a nice way to make site status and maintenance transparent with your users.
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#4imho, twitter (and others like it) will morph into a public messaging protocol. as more and more people use it the signal will get drowned by the noise. eventually the only worthwhile way of using twitter will be via enhanced filtering rules for meaningful information from people you know and follow.
twitter is really like a public pastebin with great api support which will allow you to command and control computers remotely. soon the posted messages will be encrypted nuggets taking the Public out of public.
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#5I send emails. a) Way more reliable. b) Also land on my phone [with vibration/sound alert] c) I can put a lot more details in them since there is no 140 chars limit d) Much easier to do: one line of code - old and simple tech from the 80s (sendmail) beats ugly kids of tomorrow (Twitter) any day of the week! Mr. Schmidt was right. :-P
We send emails too, but it's also nice to get a TXT on your phone for really urgent information such as a problem with the server.
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#6I send emails. a) Way more reliable. b) Also land on my phone [with vibration/sound alert] c) I can put a lot more details in them since there is no 140 chars limit d) Much easier to do: one line of code - old and simple tech from the 80s (sendmail) beats ugly kids of tomorrow (Twitter) any day of the week! Mr. Schmidt was right. :-P
We send emails too, but it's also nice to get a TXT on your phone for really urgent information such as a problem with the server.
I think his point was that twitter-to-sms isn't always as prompt as you want it to be.
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#7imho, twitter (and others like it) will morph into a public messaging protocol. as more and more people use it the signal will get drowned by the noise. eventually the only worthwhile way of using twitter will be via enhanced filtering rules for meaningful information from people you know and follow. twitter is really like a public pastebin with great api support which will allow you to command and control computers…
If the signal gets drowned out by the noise, that's your fault as a user. You either follow too many people or follow the wrong people. Twitter essentially acts as a whitelist-based messaging platform.
Note the word "whitelist"
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#8With the amount of time Twitter is down would make this an interesting test.
Re: Using Twitter to Send Alerts When Your Site Goes Down
#9I send emails. a) Way more reliable. b) Also land on my phone [with vibration/sound alert] c) I can put a lot more details in them since there is no 140 chars limit d) Much easier to do: one line of code - old and simple tech from the 80s (sendmail) beats ugly kids of tomorrow (Twitter) any day of the week! Mr. Schmidt was right. :-P
We send emails too, but it's also nice to get a TXT on your phone for really urgent information such as a problem with the server.
Why not just email to yournumber@yourcarrier.net and get it as an sms too?