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August 6, 2009
Twitter Goes Down, Falls Prey to Denial of Service Attack [UPDATE]
Update 12:13pm EST - Twitter.com is finally up for many users, DoS attack still ongoing. Facebook and LiveJournal also experiencing issues.
Update: 11:26am EST - Twitter says site is back up but they're still defending against the DoS attack. I personally can't access Twitter.com, can you? Leave a comment.
Twitter went down this morning and it's not the usual fail whale situation. Instead, Twitter issued a statement on status.Twitter.com that they're defending against a Denial of Service (DoS) Attack.
A DoS attack is a malicious attempt to bring down a website or application so that its users cannot access the service.
Twitter went down around 10am EST.
Stay tuned to Search Engine Watch as this story unfolds.
Posted by Nathania Johnson on August 6, 2009 11:09 AM
Comments
Twitter is down! Facebook is slow or unavailable! FriendFeed is holding up better, but keeps timing out! Is this the end of social media as we know it?
Kevin Newcomb August 6, 2009 11:39 AM
Very interesting. Not working for me either and I got a weird Twhirl error as well this morning. I can use Twhirl now, but not twitter.com directly.
Chad Kaufman August 6, 2009 12:24 PM
I was running a comparison on social networking search results when i noticed twitter wasnt present. Looks like I will have to redo the whole test :(
Lochnload August 6, 2009 1:07 PM
every popular things get hurted by this type of activities on internet.
ved August 7, 2009 8:16 AM
