[Infowarrior] - Responsible Twitter?

[Richard Forno]

Interesting - private company delaying a major outage because of world  
events.   You don't see that very often in the tech / IT world!  Even  
if they have some (unspoken) flexibility in schedule, it still is a  
positive PR coup for the company, I think.

-rick



  Down Time Rescheduled

A critical network upgrade must be performed to ensure continued  
operation of Twitter. In coordination with Twitter, our network host  
had planned this upgrade for tonight. However, our network partners at  
NTT America recognize the role Twitter is currently playing as an  
important communication tool in Iran. Tonight's planned maintenance  
has been rescheduled to tomorrow between 2-3p PST (1:30a in Iran).

Our partners are taking a huge risk not just for Twitter but also the  
other services they support worldwide—we commend them for being  
flexible in what is essentially an inflexible situation. We chose NTT  
America Enterprise Hosting Services early last year specifically  
because of their impeccable history of reliability and global  
perspective. Today's decision and actions continue to prove why NTT  
America is such a powerful partner for Twitter.

http://blog.twitter.com/2009/06/down-time-rescheduled.html