{"id":37303,"date":"2013-11-01T10:13:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T10:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adendavies.com\/?p=37303"},"modified":"2013-11-01T10:13:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T10:13:23","slug":"barclaysglitch-branded-bank-outages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adendavies.co.uk\/?p=37303","title":{"rendered":"#BarclaysGlitch &#8211; Branded bank outages?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday it seems Barclays suffered a serious technical problem resulting in the loss of several critical services inluding ATM&#8217;s and Online Banking. What caught my eye about this was that well known Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis tweeted about the outage and used a specific hashtag, #BarclaysGlitch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>I&#39;m hearing people struggling to get access to Barclays. Please share how it&#39;s going to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23barclaysglitch&amp;src=hash\">#barclaysglitch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Martin Lewis (@MartinSLewis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MartinSLewis\/statuses\/396058149234679808\">October 31, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Martin has a healthy following of around 260 thousand followers and is very influential in the financial services world in the UK. A lot of people started to use the hashtag to talk about the outage. Barclays themselves then also used the hashtag which is what was really interesting (for me anyway). <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>We are aware of a technical issue, and we are working hard to put things right as soon as possible. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23barclaysglitch&amp;src=hash\">#barclaysglitch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Barclays UK News (@barclaysuknews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barclaysuknews\/statuses\/396071197857034240\">November 1, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think this was smart work by Barclays. I wonder if we will see journalists\/influencers (ugh) looking to brand bank outages in the future? A race to have the hashtag most used in an outage? Will banks themselves try and add unique hashtags to outages? Does anyone normal use the word outage? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday it seems Barclays suffered a serious technical problem resulting in the loss of several critical services inluding ATM&#8217;s and Online Banking. What caught my eye about this was that well known Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis tweeted about the outage and used a specific hashtag, #BarclaysGlitch. &nbsp; I&#39;m hearing people struggling to get access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-banking","category-social"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}