Twitter Blog: Denial of Service Attack - http://blog.twitter.com/2009...
Aug 6, 2009
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@biz ---> "Thursday, August 06, 2009
Denial of Service Attack
On this otherwise happy Thursday morning, Twitter is the target of a denial of service attack. Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter for intended customers or users. We are defending against this attack now and will continue to update our status blog as we continue to defend and later investigate."
- Susan Beebe
unsurprised based on external appearances. this happens frequently to services far more important than Twitter. ;-p
- Anthony Citrano
Great FF conversation here about outages, cause, impacts, etc. ----> http://ff.im/6fF0t
- Susan Beebe
says who? LOL
- Susan Beebe
Twitter Status Blog - 2nd Update: "Ongoing denial-of-service attack -- 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."
- Susan Beebe
Twitter Status Blog - 3rd Update: "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."
- Susan Beebe