Jan
31st
Thu
31st
social media and human behaviour
what do we do when a service goes down?
twitter as example - recent scaling issues left service with down time (Shel’s open letter to Twitter)
what do we when it goes down?
- do we get a fix elsewhere
- wait for the service to come back
what does it say about us as people?
makes sense not to go to another service if only a short outage - get fragmented conversation - if anything is urgent there’s always IM or email or phone (yes actually talking to someone!)
I have spent a little time getting set up on Pownce - just in case but won’t wisthc unless I have to