Twitter Suffering Massive Denial of Service Attack
Instead of just a normal sluggish day from too much traffic on twitter, this morning on August 6th Twitter.com officially was slammed with a DOS attack that disabled the site for several hours. Twitter posted several updates on their status blog and mentioned they have recovered but were still under attack which is causing the network to almost be completely unusable as tweets fail to send and updates fail to work.
Ongoing denial-of-service attack 2 hours ago
We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly.
Update: the site is back up, but we are continuing to defend against and recover from this attack.
Update (9:46a): As we recover, users will experience some longer load times and slowness. This includes timeouts to API clients. We’re working to get back to 100% as quickly as we can.
I wonder if they will report who and what caused the DOS attack when all is recovered and figured out.
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Twitter has been hit by a few attacks the last few months, but I think this one has been the worst.
All my Twitter clients except for SocialScope are working. I hope they'll get it sorted soon. The Twitter team must be working around the clock.
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