Loading ...Twitter experienced a severe outage last week that left the site down for several hours. It was later revealed that the microblogging service was the target of a distributed denial-of-service attack as well as Facebook, LiveJournal, and certain Google websites.
The evidence gathered at this point seems to indicate that the attack has ties to a political controversy. The incident is allegedly linked to the ongoing disputes involving Russia and Georgia.
What’s somewhat surprising about this situation is how much of an impact it had on Twitter and other social media users. Businesses, celebrities, and protesters all use various social media websites.
Social media has become a large part of everyday and business life. When it is taken away, how do you react? Have you grown dependent on social media? When social networks are down, is it simply an annoyance or does it alter your entire day?
My name is Whitney Pannell and I am a social mediaholic.
Take it or leave it, although I am partial to Facebook!
I had a great success with facebook. I have recently launched a UK Shopping Comparison Site and i have a page for that on facebook and also a group created for shopping comparison and so far it’s going really good.
I use Twitter to socially market my safety and security web site but that’s not my main marketing focus. It’s certainly not good when Twitter shuts down for what ever reason but my marketing efforts won’t be on hold when it happens. Diversity in marketing is a smart approach.
I use twitter on a daily basis for one reason or other and to be perfectly honest I never noticed any change.
So I guess the answer is no I do not depend on it though I do find it useful.
Years ago when I was with AOL I would have been devastated if the chat rooms had gone down.
I could never feel the same way about Twitter.
I use facebook only for my personal use.
I still have not found a way to use social networking sites to gain any traffic to my website.
All together now, “Hi Whitney!” The first step is admitting that you have a problem.
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Nowadays there is quite increase in users for social media sites. However the dependency varies with respect to the users. Some use it for personal use and some for business purpose, so everything depends on the user
Did you hear Kim Soper telling that she’s connected 15Hs A DAY!?.