Tweeting DM-OPEN Status Updates
It is always nice to know that you web services are up and running strong. Since Twitter is the current rage, I though I would see if it could actually be useful. I set up a new Twitter account, wrote a poller to DM-OPEN that pings it on a regular basis and sends me a direct message to my grandpaham Twitter account upon the first instance of a successful ping, the first instance of a failure following a series of successful pings, and the first instance of a successful ping after one or more failures. Failures do not happen often, but now I will be the first to know if they do. Cool.
