Twitter: Denial of Service Attack

Twitter addicts started off the day with bad news when we learned our favorite micro-blogging site was experiencing service outages early this morning. At first, even Twitter didn’t know what was causing the problem, but soon announced via its blog that it was the target of a denial of service attack. I still am unable to connect to Twitter as I post this and am admittedly experiencing a twinge of withdrawal, but hardly to the extent of the Woot team!

In case you missed the drama, here’s a round-up of posts covering today’s social media apocalypse:

Facebook Down. Twitter Down. Social Media Meltdown.(via Mashable)
Serious Twitter Outage Ongoing, Denial Of Service Attack (Updated)(via TechCrunch)
What Twitter outage means for you (via The Red Tape Chronicles)
Twitter Brought Down by Denial-of-Service Attack(via GigaOM)
Twitter, Facebook, and LiveJournal Down at the Same Time! (Update)(via ReadWriteWeb)

Posted by Kristen Variola on August 6, 2009 at 5:00 PM
in Communication, Social Media

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COMMENTS (2)

I prefer my
post which likens the crisis to a homestar runner video.

Posted by: Patrick | August 6, 2009 at 10:32 PM

I love the post by the Woot team and I’ll admit that I was experiencing withdrawal as well. It made me realize that I need to get email addresses for some of my Twitter-only contacts - in case this were ever to happen again on a larger scale.

Posted by: Lisa Bader | August 7, 2009 at 9:49 AM

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