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Twitter Offline Due To DDoS

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hate-when-that-happens dept.

The elusive Precision dropped a submission in my lap about a DDoS taking down Twitter running on CNet. It's been down for several hours, no doubt wreaking havoc on the latest hawtness in social networking. Won't someone please think of the tweeters? Word is that both Facebook & LiveJournal have been having problems this AM as well.

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  1. It's kinda back... by pdboddy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My tweets are getting through, albeit slower than usual.

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    Julie Moult is an idiot.
  2. Whoops. by BigglesZX · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Might it have had something to do with the Twitter-based HTML demo (http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/05/2348219/HTML-5-Canvas-Experiment-Hints-At-Things-To-Come?art_pos=8) that made Slashdot earlier today? The site in question hits Twitter for a large number of tweets, and I imagine a lot of /.'ers were checking it out earlier. I doubt it helped, at the very least...

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    $ mv *.sig >/dev/null
  3. Re:I Only Use Slashdot Anyway by bakana · · Score: 4, Interesting

    anyone else thinks this may have something to do with this: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/05/1555219/XML-Library-Flaw-mdash-Sun-Apache-GNOME-Affected

  4. Oh come on. by thePowerOfGrayskull · · Score: 5, Interesting
    This is how their "journalists" report news on CNet? FTA - the very last line:

    There has been no indication that any of these various attacks are connected. But it's probably not a coincidence that they all coincide with the annual Defcon hacker convention.

    You mean the one that ended Sunday? Nice. Real nice.

  5. HTML5 demo by tom17 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm wondering if that HTML5 demo http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/05/2348219/HTML-5-Canvas-Experiment-Hints-At-Things-To-Come?art_pos=8 had anything to do with it. If the normal /. crowd went to the demo, which then in turn loads 100 'tweets' from twitter, is that not equivalent to twitter receiving a 100x slash-dotting?

    Tom...

  6. Re:I Only Use Slashdot Anyway by kristjansson · · Score: 5, Interesting

    and mine is this... think about it, every /.er that fired up the test pulled 100-ish tweets simultaneously for the sparkling dot bling on the test page. that would make the site a slashdot-effect magnifier with a factor of about 100...
    then again, how many slashdotters actually RTFA?

  7. Re:Give me a break by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The funny thing is that nobody used or cared about twitter outside of a handful of nerds until the people in charge of twitter struck on the advertising idea of "convince everyone that everyone is already using it, and it's the most popular thing online". After that, it started being reported on weekly by sites like Slashdot as well as major news sites, until it started getting massive buyout offers.

    Honestly, I still don't think that many people care about it. There are a handful of popular bloggers, but I don't think I've ever met a person in "real life" that has twittered for longer than a week. I'm 26, by the way.

    A similar strategy was/is used by Second Life, which is why corporations started flocking to it and then realized they'd been duped.