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Twitter and others suffer denial of service attack

TechCrunch: http://bit.ly/2JxLJR

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Computing | by C.K. Sample III | Thu Aug 6, 2009 11:20AM | 0 comments

Twitter has been down for two hours this morning due to a denial of service attack that has also affected Facebook and Livejournal.

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external link Serious Twitter Outage Ongoing, Denial Of… [techcrunch.com]
external link Twitter Brought Down by Denial-of-Service… [gigaom.com]

Latest Tweets about this story:

  • travisjamesxxx - Haha! Twitter was down when i sent it #fail RT @rbflygal @travisjamesxxx how the fuck i miss this tweet?? RE: getting fuckt again :) @ajbee
  • iKevv_CA - How do niggas bang on me ova [twitter] then turn around & follow me (point @ my bberry laugh'n at you) guess thts how they get down in FLA.
  • QueenAshMarie - RT @MzGennyBaby314 so who is at beer bash? if its an #epicfail then thats proves twitter is the feds.... --shut down!
  • RadishSpirit - Is Twitter down?
  • capbaby - @batmanshawty9 Finna shut down the atrium tonight we performin shit bout to be crazy check out da new single the link on my twitter page
  • lfarrelly - @radparker YES! Great weather. But Twitter was down for awhile.... 2 beers in already
  • AlLamb10 - Hahahahaha i love how we turned twitter into a huge chatroom for us:) were so down for the cause. Lol
  • TWKH - From News: Yahoo takes down signs on 101, moves workers: ... assets rather than any downsizing of its work... http://bit.ly/aQv53E #twitter
  • RhondaHendricks - PSA - www.joehendricks.com *and* our email may be down this weekend due to updates. Boo. Twitter us if you need us!
  • rayr661 - Wth @roxyr661 ...sry I'm not sittin down refreshing twitter everysecond lmao http://twitpic.com/19m5y0

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