posted by Joe Polk at 11:51 AM /
Do you Twitter? There's a big, wide world of techno-savvy people out there who wish you would. The virtual community is abuzz over the "next big thing," which, actually, already haas arrived. Consider this service the modern-day equivalent of the town crier, who stood on a corner shouting "Extra, extra, read all about it!"
The short, 140-character messages sent through Twitter are known as Tweets, and they're as immediate as instant messaging or a Facebook update, without depending on the Internet.
For example, when a water main break temporarily closed a Mt. Lebanon school, Cissy Bowman, district director of communications, sent a Tweet to alert residents.
"It's the immediacy of it that is unique," Ms. Bowman said. She was able to attach a photo of the water main break so that anyone who received the information could see that it was outside the building and had not caused major damage.
Link: www.post-gazette.com/pg/09141/971444-55.stm
The short, 140-character messages sent through Twitter are known as Tweets, and they're as immediate as instant messaging or a Facebook update, without depending on the Internet.
For example, when a water main break temporarily closed a Mt. Lebanon school, Cissy Bowman, district director of communications, sent a Tweet to alert residents.
"It's the immediacy of it that is unique," Ms. Bowman said. She was able to attach a photo of the water main break so that anyone who received the information could see that it was outside the building and had not caused major damage.
Link: www.post-gazette.com/pg/09141/971444-55.stm
Labels: school district, twitter
2 Comments:
Ms. Josephine Posti, External Affairs Specialist of Pennsylvania American Water Co. says it's a water pipe, not a main.
For some reason, the same kind of "district-owned" pipe serviced by the same water company just broke at two Upper St. Clair schools.
I wouldn't rely too heavily on a service that has no income stream. How many people are going to twitter when it costs $4.99 a month?
Or worse, what happens when tweets start carrying ads?
*tweet* Shaq says drink Pepsi!
*tweet* Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian now available on Bluray!
Or even worse... You start following Luke Ravenstahl, then you mysteriously start getting junk mail at your house for Baltimore Ravens gear.
People can go ahead and twitter all they want while it lasts, but don't get rid of the sirens on the school roofs just yet.
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