Posts Tagged ‘ social networking sites ’

Hurricane Gustav Spurs Volunteers, Relief Via Social Media

Aug 31st, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Citizen Media, Microblogging

On the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation along the Gulf Coast of the United States, another huge hurricane, Gustav, is howling around Cuba and heading for New Orleans, which was devastated by the 2005 hurricane. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is calling Gustav “the mother of all storms,” and has ordered the mandatory evacuation [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,
2 comments


Twitter Uptime Worst Of All Social Networks

May 6th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General

We’re fans of Twitter (podcastmama & podcasting_news), but have been surprised by the site’s frequent downtime.
Turns out there’s legitimate reason for concern: Twitter has the worst uptime of all the major social networks.
Availability monitoring company Pingdom.com released availability stats for the major social networks today, and Twitter comes out in last place:

Social network site downtime, [...]

Tags: , ,
2 comments