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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. 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
  2. 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

  3. 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.

  4. 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?