For those government agencies using Twitter for notification, 311 and other services I’ll bet its been a tough morning.
They may want to have a look at Identi.ca – a competing (albeit much smaller) micro-blogging site that even piggybacks on Twitter’s API. I’ve said before that government’s need to spread the love among different social networking sites.
I’m guessing that today there are more people who will be receptive to such advice…
Twitter Outage Raises Concerns for Government – http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/708250
I am the former Chief Data Officer for the City of Philadelphia. I also served as Director of Government Relations at Code for America, and as Director of the State of Delaware’s Government Information Center. For about six years, I served in the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS), and helped pioneer their work with state and local governments. I also led platform evangelism efforts for TTS’ cloud platform, which supports over 30 critical federal agency systems.
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