Tag: downtime
It’s raining whales!
The Web is Falling (Or whales are falling out of the sky)
Twitter got a huge boost in terms of exposure and users by throwing whales at innocent users (http://cynicroot.com/blog/2008/07/30/the-twitter-conspiracy-downtime-a-publicity-stunt/).
Other companies are now doing the same. It seems that some downtime provides good exposure to companies with many users which don’t get too much spotlight.
The best [...]
Posted: August 12th, 2008 under Marketing&PR, bloging, business, social networking.
Tags: amazon, cloud cmputing, downtime, ec2, facebook, gmail, marketing, s3, twitter
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The Twitter Conspiracy: downtime - a publicity stunt?
I’m not that much of a Twitter user, but it seems that recently no blog is complete without saying something about twitter.
Twitter had a lot of downtime over 1-2Q08. It made all blogs talk about twitter even more, a lot more:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/20/twitter-something-is-technically-wrong/, http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/31/hey-twitter-i-have-a-few-questions-too/
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/23/201251
http://scobleizer.com/2008/05/15/twitter-down/
(Simply search “twitter AND down”. Actually, just search “twitter”).
It even makes me talk about [...]
Posted: July 30th, 2008 under Marketing&PR, bloging, business.
Tags: Conspiracy, down, downtime, marketing, PR, twitter
Comments: 1