Twitter Power
April 27, 2009
I was going to ignore the article “The Beginner’s Guide to Twitter” but I thought, “I may as well take a look.” The story appeared in TechRadar.com here. the article provides the reader with the basics of signing up and sending Tweets. But deep in the write up was a gem. For me, the most interesting comment about Twitter’s horsepower was this passage:
Google’s recent outage is a good example of this. For about an hour back in January, its malware detector started claiming that every website ‘may harm your computer’. Before Google had a chance to respond, before blogs had a chance to write posts, Twitter users had already done the important investigation – that yes, it was a problem on Google’s end, that no, it wasn’t spyware at fault – and broadcast it.
I found this a good example of the importance of real time messaging.
Stephen Arnold, April 26, 2009
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