Twitter suffering from DDoS-Attack
Just in case you haven’t noticed or heard yet: Twitter has been down for an hour and a half now and as the Twitter HQ was looking for a reason why it was down they discovered that they were being attacked by a DoS attack:
The status message can be read on the Twitter Status Site. I’ve added a little screenshot of the message from the Twitter HQ that can be read there:
I hope –whoever they are- that they’re stopping the attack soon. It seems pretty pointless to me.
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.
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