Twitter Deals With Denial-Of-Service Attack
August 6th, 2009 Posted in Online by Eric
If there’s one thing webmasters fear more than the devil himself, it’s a distributed denial-of-service attack. That’s exactly what Twitter’s dealing with this morning, and it’s not looking pretty. The micro-blogging fanatics around the world are at their knees, crying, hoping, maybe even praying for a speedy solution.
TechCrunch reports that the site became “partially live” as of 08:16 Pacific, but it appears to have collapsed again.
When will the Earth begin rotating again!?
Update: It is currently 11:48 AM Eastern, and it looks like Twitter is back up and running.
[ image courtesy (second): TechCrunch ]
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