Comments on: cruel and unusual http://blog.mittenartworks.com/cruel-and-unusual mitten muses, rants and raves about life, the internet, web design and art Wed, 19 May 2010 15:15:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: mitten http://blog.mittenartworks.com/cruel-and-unusual/comment-page-1#comment-847 mitten Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:01:23 +0000 http://blog.mittenartworks.com/cruel-and-unusual#comment-847 Actually, Twitter fancies itself a communications tool for emergent situations of all kinds: http://blog.twitter.com/2008/01/why-we-are-focused-on-engineering-and.html Don't forget that Twitter is accessible through text messaging. Yes, of course, internet would be down in a major disaster, but cell phone communications might remain available, depending on the circumstances. And text messages do not clog cell phone communications the way voice calls do - a lot more can be carried. So it is conceivable that Twitter might be used under disastrous circumstances, if it gets its backend service figured out properly. Actually, Twitter fancies itself a communications tool for emergent situations of all kinds: http://blog.twitter.com/2008/01/why-we-are-focused-on-engineering-and.html

Don’t forget that Twitter is accessible through text messaging. Yes, of course, internet would be down in a major disaster, but cell phone communications might remain available, depending on the circumstances. And text messages do not clog cell phone communications the way voice calls do – a lot more can be carried. So it is conceivable that Twitter might be used under disastrous circumstances, if it gets its backend service figured out properly.

]]> By: Alan Gutierrez http://blog.mittenartworks.com/cruel-and-unusual/comment-page-1#comment-846 Alan Gutierrez Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:25:37 +0000 http://blog.mittenartworks.com/cruel-and-unusual#comment-846 I don't think anyone took the time to study the use of the Internet in communication during Katrina. The thought that we'll rely on Twitter is very silly. The Internet was out to lunch for most of early September. Email especially. I don’t think anyone took the time to study the use of the Internet in communication during Katrina. The thought that we’ll rely on Twitter is very silly. The Internet was out to lunch for most of early September. Email especially.

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