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An alert system's usefulness is proportional to its reach. For an online widely distributed alert system, Twitter's one of the few services that would fit that
by shutter 18y ago
An alert system's usefulness is proportional to its reach. For an online widely distributed alert system, Twitter's one of the few services that would fit that goal.
- nir 18y ago"distributed" in what sense? Technology-wise, Twitter is highly centralized - and a rather unreliable center at that. A Twitter-like UI that would simply send email to all your emergency contacts might be a lot more reliable and much easier to scale.