(Inspired by a conversation this morning w/ @tjeffrey at Hook)
So if you’re reading this blog, I’m pretty damn positive that you noticed that Twitter and Facebook went down the other day. Funny how many forget (or just don’t know) that something just like the “Social Media Apocalypse” of 8/09 used to happen literally every week on Twitter.
And while the outage was relatively minor, there were ripple effects that went beyond people’s inability to tweet about their breakfast or to RT some social media link-bait.
Take a look at CPB’s new site. What happens when Twitter goes down? Is it really acceptable to lose 1/3 of your website’s content? And they’re not the only agency/company to rely on a 3rd party feed. I think that pulling in content from other places is great, but now you’ve got to worry about the stability of other sites.
Not that any of this is wrong. Just another thing to think about.
My name is Matt J McDonald and I'm a New Marketing Strategist based in Charleston, SC.
