Readers, it looks like Twitter is on the fritz, so let’s play a quick game to figure out what might be wrong with the microblogging site this time. At 12:15 PT, the main site appeared to be down, then it was up and running a few minutes later. Some applications are working just fine, with my TweetDeck account registering no problems. CoTweet sent out a tweet at 12:09 PT saying that it’s having some issues. So step right up and play the What’s Tweaking Twitter Today? game.
Let's Play "What's Tweaking Twitter Today?"
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Readers, it looks like Twitter is on the fritz, so let’s play a quick game to figure out what might be wrong with the microblogging site this time. At 12:15 PT, the main site appeared to be down, then it was up and running a few […]
I am new to Twitter. The site sucks. It just never works. What gives?
Their latest status points to another attack:
http://status.twitter.com/post/160693237/responding-to-site-downtime
No info on whether this is related to last week’s attacks.
Twitter needs to upgrade security and servers. What else is new?
How about we move our lives onto something else for a change?
[...] a two-day site-wide outage last week due to a denial-of-service attack and was hit again on Tuesday. “We worked behind the scenes with folks from Google and other companies to figure out how to [...]