obviously myspace

North Korea!!! After Clinton's visit they are probably feeling vulnerable now and are asserting their authority.

is it a jackal?

what do these people hope to gain by doing this? i remeber in my day of hacking we actually had a purpose.... not just some fu##ing script kiddie getting kicks

i don't want to claim all the glory

it was George Clooney!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

though i will if someone else is at blame. if i had that many friends anyway

A rogue iPhone

""So, that's Facebook, LiveJournal and Twitter all targeted by what we can only assume was the same group of people. Who do you think is responsible?""

Assumption is the mother of all F ups!

My guess: Twitter is the guilty party... they knocked themselves down so they could target Facebook and LiveJournal without being suspected.

Why would Twitter do that when they all work hand in hand with each other? You can post tweets on facebook now.

So what? it's the (insert panic inducing virus name here) virus!

zomg run for your lives! your pc is going to explode!

either someone being philosophical, or someone being a jackass

Korea DDosed on 28.5k must have used the entire country's internet but we all know it's always China's Russia's or France's fault

I'm gonna go with 4chan lol and there "Shitter" campaign.

Well anyways, I would like to say my thanks to whoever did this.. It shows how much faggotry there is in the world today.

Quote from Yahoo news-"I had to Google search Twitter to find out what was going on, when normally my Twitter feed gives me all the breaking news I need," said Alison Koski, a New York public-relations manager. She added she felt "completely lost" without Twitter.

wow, if i didn't know any better, id say it was me, i'm all for the downfall of social networking as it is today

Doesn't matter who did it - it always leads back to 4chan.

/b/

No it's an Elite.

actually some regions of korea have a ridiculous connection speeds. I don't know why you're commenting with 28.5k? average cost of a 60meg connection is 25 usd over there. and that's considered "average".
http://www.informationweek.com/new [...] D=14800041
anyway, having said that, there's always going to be massive attacks on big sites due to the fact that there are a ton of people that don't know their system is part of a botnet, or just don't care except to call "dell" or "HP" and whine about their "slow computer". I like the idea of the isp's identifying ip addresses being used for possible attacks and blocking them... but that isn't the case with rogue isp's.

IT WAS MYSPACE as they wernt attacked so it had to of been them. or a combo of myspace with north korea

I think it was Anerica and now we will here how the internet needs to be regulated by the government and all stupid people will flock and say hell yeah pass the law I'm in...

North korea...wow you don't read the full comment, north korea is implied as it is what i comment on thus all i need is korea =p South korea is one of the most wired places in the world. And no North korea doesn't share internet or anything with South Korea. You really like to discredit your self?

was it conficker?

Gives the stagnant IT's a wake up call!!!

it was the bush administration

I think its the website, beforethetrailer.com they are a bunch of troublemakers there.

Whomever can come up with a viable defense against ddos will be one of the richest people on earth. I wish I knew anything worthwhile about computers. I'd start work immediately.

It was the head of lettuce sitting in the back of my refrigerator ;-)

I wasn't serious....

It was probably Iran or North Korea or Russia who test new ways to effectively silence twitter / western medias for the next time the will need to. They can't prevent people to use it thought proxies or darknets, so they ddos the service itself...

wow i read the title and thought i had already heard about this but it was of course twitter. Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, they're all the same. I basically hear MyTwitFace every time there's any news about them