Pingdom is the best website monitoring service available as of now and at the same time it is a paid service. Pingdom monitors website uptime each minute using its servers located all over the world. Pingdom has announced that now you can get alerts via Twitter. So in addition to email and SMS, you can also use Twitter to get alerted by Pingdom when your websites or servers go down.
You can get Twitter alerts in two ways:
- Status messages (public) sent to @yourtwittername, or
- Direct messages (hidden) sent to @yourtwittername
Pingdom alerts will be sent from a special Twitter user, @pingdomalert, which you’ll need to follow if you want to be able to receive direct messages (DM). To get notifications via Twitter, you need to add Twitter account as a contact.
Once you have added your Twitter account as contact, go to the settings of the website for which you want to sent alerts via Twitter and then add the notification type as Twitter.
Now you can get website downtime and uptime alert using Twitter.
