Twitter Says Message Site Is Unavailable After `Denial of Service' Attack

[Purveyor]

Source: Bloomberg

By Jonathan Thaw

Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Twitter Inc., the site that lets people post short messages, said its service was unavailable today because of a “denial of service” attack.

Twitter made the announcement on a company blog.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aEk1GBAOkmTs

[Dr.Phool]

1. It's the end of the world!

Twits can't tweet!

[Rebubula]

2. DEAR GOD!

I need to know what Lindsey Lohan had for lunch and how Brad Pitt's last bowel movement felt!!!!!

:rofl:

[qanda]

3. And facebook is so slow that's it's close to unusable

I've gotten a ton of work done, though.

[inwiththenew]

4. Denial of service?

Was it /b/?

[liberal N proud]

5. Leaving the twits at twits end

[Posteritatis]

6. And the DU luddites cheer... (nt)

[BlueIdaho]

7. What a shame

When the Iranian demonstrators risking their lives to overthrow a brutal regime understand the power of Twitter and the DU snobs can't quite figure it out...

[Posteritatis]

8. Half of them think they're the enemy anyway

You know, that standard "if anyone abroad is mad at a regime the US officially dislikes then they're all ebil CIA spies" bull.

[rd_kent]

9. Crime will go up now!

twitterholics will go nuts.....

[Barack_America]

10. Once again, by the time the MSM reports "news" from Twitter...

...the event is already over.

[rcrush]

11. OMG how is CNN going to get news!?! How are corporations going to do their grassroots marketing now?

Were screwened!

[damntexdem]

12. Iran?

China?

Honduras?

HIAA?

[unc70]

13. Twitter goes titsup

Source: The Register

Twitter was knocked offline on Thursday after the site became the victim of a denial of service attack.Users of the micro-blogging service are used to seeing the fail whale, a graphic that appears when service is over capacity, but this time around the site was left completely unreachable from around 1500 on Thursday (UK time).A terse messages on Twitter's status blog initially said the site was down before adding "We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly".

Read more: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/06/twitter_outage/

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Don't know the source of the attack.I am not a twit, so this has not affected me personally. It is a reminder to all those who were lauding the ability of twitter traffic to persist in Iran in the face of the lockdown of other networks.This must be causing incredible problems for the "new" CNN with its obsession with twitter. I would guess they must be talking about the problems with twitter, not reading all the messages they are getting!

[Mika]

14. Looks like the Rick Sanchez CNN show will be hurting today. No Twitter, no "news". n/t

[question everything]

25. BINGO.

This is when I turn off CNN.

Also in the morning, when Heidi and company only cover twits and iReports. And this is all news all the time?

[MaineDem]

15. Love the headline

But this is a dupe of an earlier post.

[undeterred]

16. "titsup"?

Is that a British word? :shrug:

[libodem]

17. If you get knocked out

you are on your back. Lights out, tits up. Get it?

[undeterred]

21. Never heard the expression before.

:shrug:

[nolabear]

22. Definition:

Tits up, like toes up, deceased, pinin' for the fjords. It is an ex-Twitter. The real delight here is that a "Tit" is also a kind of bird.

[unc70]

23. We also have tits/titmice here in NC

Locally in NC, we have "tufted tits" (AKA "tufted titmouse").

The term "titsup" is used for the bankrupt/failure meaning like "bellyup", but in the more-general sense as in this headline.

BTW I recommend The Register (UK version) as a good site for an early headsup on technology and other news. Like DU, it covers a lot of topics outside its primary focus and often the most-interesting info is down in the comments. http://www.theregister.co.uk

[libodem]

27. Used to have a boyfriend who used it all the time

Tits up. Lights out. When something failed.

[Warpy]

18. Twitter is back up

and some information is still getting out of Iran. Individual sites of Iranian posters are blocked.

I have a sneaking suspicion this is government mischief because Twitter isn't the only site attacked. Other sites providing news out of Iran like Gooya are also down. The FB pages of opposition leaders were hacked or blocked.

I hope the code kiddies retaliate against that government. They were effective 6 weeks ago.

[qanda]

20. Twitter is not fully up

I still cannot access the site.

[liberal N proud]

19. Oh what will the twits do?

[question everything]

26. Especially the twit senator from Missouri?

[MilesColtrane]

24. Tweet!

Uh, I mean Sweet!

[-..__...]

28. Oh Noes!!!!

My lifeline with the outside world has been severed!!!
:sarcasm:

[windowpilot]

29. Didn't the military just put a ban on Twitter and facebook.

I wonder how far their reach really is.

[slackmaster]

30. I've always regarded Twitter's existence as a kind of DOS attack

:nuke:

But seriously, coordinated DOS attacks are illegal. I hope the perps get caught. Who knows what they may decide to disrupt next?