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Using Twitter as an Emergency Broadcast Network

* SMARTBEAR Twitter as an Emergency Broadcast Network. Can it Handle the Load? Roscarch indicates that stato and municipal governments are using social media to disseminate emergency information with greater frequency. "Rather than trying to convince the public to adjust to the way the Federal Emergency Management Association communicates, we must adapt to the way the public communicates... We must use social media to more fully engage the Studies show that 88% 59% public as a critical partner in our efforts." of municipal governments govemments of state Craig Fugate, Administrator of FEMA The federal government has followed suit. After an earthquake in now use Twitter to communicate with the public.! Virginia, the Department of Homeland Security directed citizens to Twitter to reduce the load on local telephone lines. There are currently Some cities are even considering re-directing their homepages to Twitter as a way to prevent website crashes during emergencies. 250,000,000 tweets sent each day. Twitter membership continues So, the question is: "Can Twitter continue to handle the load, especially during emergencies?" to grow at about 80% per year. 12% bugs Software According to RightScale, the most common reasons for outages among major networks were: 33% 21% Power loss or a failed backup Natural disaster 21% rOuting Traffic spikes/DNS Dospito occasional outagos, Twitter has worked diligently to test, analyze and update their platform. Not long ago, Twitter analyzed a crash by looking at I/O and CPU timings and then looking at specific Memcached queries. As a result, the changes they Twtter Percent Upt me 2007 to 2013 made could drive a 25% to 50% improvement in that area of performance. 2007 2008 2ccs 2010 2011 2012 2013 The truth is, Twitter has been consistently testing their platform (and improving their results) for several years. Because of Twitter's relentless testing and analysis, the Fail Whale shows up less frequently than ever before. That's good news for Twitter, good news for developers and good news for the population as a whole. A SMARTBEAR More than one million developers, testers and operations professionals use SmariBear tools to ensure the quality and performarce of their APs, desktop, mobile, Web and cloud-based applications. With five million downloads and counting, SmartBear products are affordable, easy-to-use and ready for deployment. Free tools and plug-ins are also available for download on the website. Sources 1) http://access.sdsu.edulpdf/Emergencylnfo.pdf 2) http://access.5dsu.edulpdf/Emergencylnfo.pdf 3) http://goo.gl/Osorl 4) http://goo.gl/XLNTQ 5) http://goo.gl/36yee 6) Pingdom.com 7) http://goo.gl/7TKN

Using Twitter as an Emergency Broadcast Network

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We have seen it more often than not lately, and many of us have been taking it for granted: Twitter as the place to go for rapid communication during an emergency. Here in the Boston area, we saw the ...

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