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Re: Using twitter as an outage notification
From: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 20:25:33 -0700
-----Original Message----- From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 6:29 PM To: funsec () linuxbox org Subject: Re: [funsec] Using twitter as an outage notification Seen on NANOG: On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:29:22 -1000, Michael Painter said:"Bonnie Smalley has Internet bragging rights: She has been blocked by Twitter for hand-typing too many tweets in an hour. They thought she was a computer program made to spew spam.Ms. Smalley, it turns out, is a 100 percent human customer service representative for Comcast. She is one of 10 representatives who
reach
out to customers through social networks, rather than waiting for
them
to find Comcast's support site.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/technology/personaltech/02basics.htm
l?partner=rss&emc=rssThere's a Dilbert strip in there, fighting to get out.. ;)
Hmm, so what's the opposite of a Turing test? I guess it's a Turing test..... _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 06)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 06)