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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.downrightnow.com/">http://www.downrightnow.com/</a> monitors Twitter for user reports of
service problems. Seems to work alright for Hotmail, Facebook,
Yahool Mail, Foursquare, Gmail, Tumblr, Twitter, Youtube, Typepad,
Blogger, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, Netflix, Ning, Paypal and Skype.
I've asked them to add a few other services, but I haven't heard
back. <br>
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On 8/17/2011 1:12 PM, Bino Gopal wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal">So the recent Netflix thread just got me
thinking…why hasn’t someone (or have they, in which case they
should publicize it more and spread the word and it should be
mentioned in response to the “noisy” posts), set up real-time
monitoring of these “popular” services like Netflix, Facebook,
from multiple different locations so that people can go there
and check it first before posting here?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I mean there is <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/#">http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/#</a>
but I’m not sure how robust it is and where it checks from
exactly (and it provides no way to get detail on what it
checks and how it checks-basically there’s nothing showing its
work) so I’m not sure how much it can be trusted… Something
like that but with a lot more detail would be cool…it could
even be locked with a login for people on the list if we
wanted to keep it low traffic (for whatever reason).<o:p></o:p></p>
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Maybe this has been brought up before (didn’t see it in any of
the recent discussion archives tho), but it seems like one of
the easier solutions to the S/N ratio problem…just two cents
tho. ;)<o:p></o:p></p>
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BINO
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Brian Carpenter
NOC Engineer, OpenDNS
405.503.1286 - mobile</pre>
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