Incident updates now threaded on Twitter
Automatic Twitter posts from Statuspage incident updates now link together into one Twitter thread. This update applies to Tweets that are posted automatically via the Statuspage Twitter integration.
Automatic Twitter posts from Statuspage incident updates now link together into one Twitter thread. This update applies to Tweets that are posted automatically via the Statuspage Twitter integration.
Automatic Twitter posts from Statuspage incident updates now link together into one Twitter thread. This update applies to Tweets that are posted automatically via the Statuspage Twitter integration.
For a couple reasons, building a support team is pretty hard. It’s hard because there are no shortcuts to finding and training the right person. There are a lot more mediocre and poor support advocates out there than there are excellent ones. And the excellent ones are probably pretty happy where they are.
Have you ever seen a tweet like this and wondered what it was? It’s #HugOps! We’re sending you some giant #HugOps today (and every day), and hope that after reading this you feel inspired to pass on some #HugOps, too.
If you’re hosting on AWS, you can expect some pretty excellent reliability and availability. If your service isn’t responding, it’s likely an issue with your own code. On the other hand, system outages do happen. They’re usually pretty minor. Sometimes they're not.
Letting the right people know about incidents is an easier-said-than-done kind of task. Every incident is different and some notifications simply don’t need to land in everyone’s inbox. We’ve listened to a lot of customers who like the idea of posting an incident to their status page, but not having that incident sent as notifications to all their subscribers.
I’ve seen my share of terrible status updates. As Founder and CEO of a SaaS platform for database performance management, VividCortex, I know the power of a great status update to build or destroy trust. Unfortunately, I see more bad status updates than good ones.