What A Turkish Coup Taught Me About The Media & The Power Of Internet Performance

As a former journalist, I find my role as Director of Corporate Comms at Dyn fascinating. Based on the fact that Dyn has a unique perspective of the internet and employs world-class data scientists, we frequently find ourselves at the center of news cycles – though it would be more accurate to call them storms because of the flurry of activity that happens in a short period of time.

There was no greater example of this than in December of 2014 when our own Doug Madory was the first person to discover that North Korea was offline. This was at the time of North Korea’s alleged hack of Sony, which was major international news. When Doug sent out his first tweet the media floodgates opened. I remember fielding calls from Japanese television stations.

This happened on a smaller scale when Iraq shut down the internet and when a Facebook clone went online in North Korea. However, the most recent event came just last week when the Turkish military staged an unsuccessful coup in Istanbul.

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While it is exciting to play a role in these breaking news situations and the exposure for Dyn is always good, the Continue reading

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