Twitter Hit With DDoS Attack
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: Twitter, outage, down, DDoS, attack | Themes: The Internet
There was a prolonged silence in the world of social networking today as Twitter users experienced an outage that lasted several hours.
Most users expect to see the Twitter fail whale when the site is too busy to handle traffic however, this morning the site was completely down. It turns out the Twitter problems were a result of a denial of service attack.
CNet cites performance monitoring firm AlertSite which says went down at 6:05 a.m. PT and was showing 40 percent availability two hours later at 8:04 a.m. PT. However, timeouts were continuing from most of its monitoring locations at 8:30 a.m.
At 8 a.m. PT Twitter co-founder Biz Stone published a post the the Twitter blog that said the company is defending against the attack and would later investigate.
Who would do such a thing?
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dear god!!!! people couldn't post about their mundane lives for over 2 hours!!! So much could have happened, and the world would never know! This is a disaster! Where's FEMA?!
dear god!!!! people couldn't post about their mundane lives for over 2 hours!!! So much could have happened, and the world would never know! This is a disaster! Where's FEMA?!
FEMA doesn't know about it because Twitter is down!
oh well i guess i will have to post here lets see its noe 2:48 pm and i am writing this. waits a sec noe its 2:49pm and i am still writing this LOL
twitter is the biggest waste of bandwidth on the internet and facebook and myspace are a close 2nd and 3rd.
Facebook also seems affected somehow.
Twitter haters?
it was Apple
Twitter haters?
No its Twitter thats hatin' on us
Twitter haters?
You could say that.
Allow me to quote Penny Arcade
"I'm a Twitter Shitter"
To quote David Cameron, "Too many twits might make a twat".
Did CNN and Fox News send all the staff home? How else would they be getting their up-to-the minute, accurate stories without twitter? What a farce this entire twitter/facebook/myspace crap phenomenon has become? Do these users remember what a REAL friend is?
it was Apple
If it was Apple it would have been a VVoS attack.
OOMMGG ITS THE APOCALYPSE!!!!!111
Also, checked 4chan for about an hour, it wasn't them.
Besides 14 year olds couldn't do it anyways.
if i could i would give these hackers hugs for doing this
Do these users remember what a REAL friend is?
Just because YOUR friends don't use it, doesn't mean others don't. It's very useful for quickly communicating and spreading information to lots of people, e.g party's and events.
It probably just missed your generation
This could have been the Day The Earth Stood Still!!! AHHHHH!!!!
Just because YOUR friends don't use it, doesn't mean others don't. It's very useful for quickly communicating and spreading information to lots of people, e.g party's and events. It probably just missed your generation ....
Too bad most people don't use it for that. It ends up being a "Look at me!" application.
It was the same person who killed Asmodean, and if you get that, you are as big a dork as I.
Good, I hope it stays down. I am sick of hearing about it in all of my podcasts/tech news.
Excellent!
"Shut it down! Shut it down forever!" - Mr Book : Dark City
Who cares... it's Twitter
All your Twiiters are belong to us!
lol! i did expected many lovers when i'd take down the site!! did u know that someone even wrote about her sexual actions!?
Just because YOUR friends don't use it, doesn't mean others don't. It's very useful for quickly communicating and spreading information to lots of people, e.g party's and events. It probably just missed your generation ....
tenor77 beat me to it - but that's exactly what I meant! Strange, people seemed more "connected" before these pretentious sites started popping up and shallow people started to display their important lives and achievements. Keeping in touch, if you don't want to spend the money on long-distance calls, can be free via the many messenger options out there. Or for local friends, how about hanging out and having a real talk. SHEESH!
OH NO...Now how are the US Marines going to communicate sensitive battle communications?!?
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Marine [...] -4377.html
Sort of feels like your hometown is under terrorist attack. Check out my CARTOON at http://www.pcdisorder.com/2009/08/ [...] rvice.html
hjj
What I really meant was that people shouldn't generalise so much, I don't quite understand how people think that if people use social networking sites they are somehow automatically less social in real life? Oh and I'm generally referring to Facebook, as twitter doesn't really have any features I would consider to help my social life, I don't use it, and I had to take a lot of time convincing the company I work for not to bother investing in it!..
I would have thought twitter users would have been used to being spammed with useless information by now.
"Twitter Hit With DDoS Attack"
Christmas came early.