Twitter hit

[tinytim]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/06/twitter.attack/index.html

(CNN) -- An attack on the social networking site Twitter shut the site down for about two hours on Thursday morning, causing headaches in the online community and glitches in other Web sites like Facebook.
In an e-mail to CNN.com, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said the site was hit with a "denial of service attack," or an attempt to shut the site down by overwhelming it with traffic.
"There's no indication that this attack is related to any previous activities. We are currently the target of a denial of service attack," Stone said in the e-mail.

I only tweet occasionally, but I did notice Facebook was not working right this morning. I still can't load some links from Facebook.

Some one notify the "O".. so his internet czar can fix this situation.

 

[preachinjesus]

Not much anyone can do in the midst of an attack like this. We can't mandate Norton Anti-Virus for everyone.

From what I'm hearing from friends in the tech sector most of the computers being used are from outside of the US. Its a pretty massive attack.

 

[rbell]

Not much anyone can do in the midst of an attack like this. We can't mandate Norton Anti-Virus for everyone.

If we mandated Norton...that would ensure problems. :laugh:

 

[preachinjesus]

Well it would certainly slow everyone's computer down to a 386 model and thus create the need for more streamline programming...