Getting WoW status updates on Twitter
by Mike Schramm 
May 22nd 2009 at 2:00PM
You readers are awesome -- yesterday, when I posted the link to the online server alert page (which, yes, wasn't all that new, but lots of us hadn't seen it before), I suggested that it get hooked up to Twitter somehow, and sure enough, Scyntinth and blkmasta55555 wasted no time creating @WoWStatusUS and @WoWStatusEU, respectively (Ed also pointed out the EU status page). Tsaavik created an RSS feed for the alert as well, if you'd rather use that. And those aren't the only way to track Blizzard's realm status on Twitter -- looks like @wowalerts has been in action for a little while, and @pikestaff pointed out to me that @wowrealms tweets about realm downtime as well. And, hey, even your friends here at WoW.com are on Twitter keeping you up to date with the latest at @WoWInsider.So yes, there are tons of ways to track what's happening on your favorite realms via Twitter or any number of updating services.
Filed under: Realm News, Patches, Realm Status, Blizzard
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Fried May 22nd 2009 2:17PM
www.twitter.com/thunderhorn works for me, but i dont know if all realms are set up like that.
Traynn May 22nd 2009 2:21PM
What's the high/low on time until Blizzard's cease and desist order gets issued for those twitter accounts?
h3lladvocate May 22nd 2009 2:33PM
Not gonna lie, this is pretty cool. Would love to see more use of this link to the status page. Maybe a real-time server tracker with this in-tandem with it. Would help for those who want to get on their server as soon as its up, but don't want to sit at the realm screen waiting for the green light.
anonymoose May 22nd 2009 2:36PM
So let's see--rocket boots are no longer functional in PvP settings and dragon's eye prismatic cuts will be changed to non-prismatic--and all you can find to report on is some stupidity about twitter?
Fried May 22nd 2009 2:50PM
AMG ROCKET BOOTS!!!!!
Don't talk about anything else for weeks or I'll flame all over!!!!
RAGE!!!!!
not everyone gives a crap about rocket boots blizz is changing them... deal. that's how wow works.
Fuseitana May 22nd 2009 2:52PM
That's all well and good for folks who want to keep up with their server's status when they're not trying to get on the server. If they are trying to get on they know whether it's up or down.
But, my real and still concern is the Wowhead tooltips that aren't working since the change to the new format. Please fix these.
elfennau May 22nd 2009 2:54PM
What I would love to see is a directory of the really useful or interesting WoW-related Twitter account links somewhere. Hmm.
blkmasta55555 May 22nd 2009 3:01PM
Um, mine doesn't actually work. Or if it does, I didn't see it. Sorry about that...
Scyntinth May 22nd 2009 3:58PM
It would be relatively trivial for me to get this working against that twitter account as well. It would require getting authentication credentials for the account though.
Contact me offline if you are interested :: davidray at gmail dot com
Teej May 22nd 2009 3:52PM
Another resource in the "crap my realm is down" toolbox: http://www.realmwatcher.com not only offers server-specific RSS feeds (suitable for your RSS reader of choice) but also offers email alerts with tweakable trigger criteria.
STX May 22nd 2009 8:39PM
i only have four words for this: "Damn i hate twitter"
Bregdark May 26th 2009 4:09AM
All of these are useless, unfortunately.
The two new twitter ones are useless because they are truncated before the useful info is displayed.
The page2rss one is useless because it doesn't check the status page frequently enough. (If you look at http://page2rss.com/page?url=launcher.worldofwarcraft.com/alert it still hasn't caught the update from 4pm Pacific yesterday -- more than 9 hours past the update as I submit this comment, and it still doesn't show the server alert.)
The @wowalerts twitter is the most useless of the bunch because it's both truncated AND not updated fast enough.