Vandaler skär sönder Internerkabel i Silicon Valley, alla kommunicerar på Twitter
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När vandaler skar sönder en stor Internetkabel här i Silicon Valley nu på torsdagen så var tusentals hushåll plötsligt utan Internet i delar av den IT-beroende Silicon Valley.
Twitters högkvarter i San Francisco
Så vad gjorde Telecomföretaget som ägde kabeln för att nå ut till abonnenterna, givetvis, man använde Twitter.
Marguerite Reardon skriver i om AT&T uses Twitter during service outage | Wireless – CNET News
Want to find out why you suddenly don’t have Internet access or cell phone service? You might want to check out the social-networking site Twitter. It seems that Twitter was one of the main ways that phone company AT&T has been communicating with customers and updating the public about the fiber cut that caused thousands of people in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area to go without broadband, phone, and wireless service for most of Thursday. Janine Popick, CEO of VerticalResponse, whose company has been affected by the outage, said the only way she has stayed on top of the situation has been through Twitter. “All of my real time updates have been coming from the AT&T Twitter feed,” she said. Indeed, she isn’t alone. Nearly 2,400 people have been keeping tabs on the situation via AT&T’s Twitter feed.
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