Wednesday, August 14, 2013

New York Times turns to Facebook, publishes full articles during website outage


As The New York Times struggled to get its site back online, the paper turned to often ephemeral social media to put out its stories. Earlier today, the site began suffering unknown technical difficulties, pulling it completely offline for over an hour. Unfortunately, while the outage wasn't long, it was enough to threaten reporting of one of the week's biggest stories: a violent clash in Egypt that left over a hundred people — and possibly many more — dead. To get out news of the Cairo protests, the Times turned to a system that's usually supplemental: posting updates on social media.


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/14/4621324/new-york-times-publishes-articles-on-facebook-during-site-outage

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