Twitter is Down, Fighting Denial of Service Attack

Filed as News on August 6, 2009 7:48 pm

by Thord Daniel Hedengren

That’s right, Twitter is down. I’m sure most of you already noticed, reloading those lists and resending tweets to the left and right. Hopefully the downtime will be short, but it’s over 30 minutes already which is bad enough.

Update: Twitter is fighting a denial of service attack.

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    1. By Elizabeth Potts Weinstein posted on August 6, 2009 at 8:24 pm
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      I’m back to reading blogs. Like going back in time 3 YEARS! ;)

      But seriously, way to much of my biz is done on twitter (even communicating with staff) …

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