Twitter down yet again, due to a DoS attack?

Posted by james | Filed under Uncategorized

That’s right. Twitter is down once again. This time, not because it has too many users or because they’re updating their service, but because of a Denial of Service attack.

Reported on BBC News’ website:

“Denial-of-service attacks take various forms but often involve a company’s servers being flooded with data in an effort to disable them. The outage began Thursday morning but the geographic scale of the attack is still not known.”

Since the attack Twitter’s site has come back online but seems to still be suffering from the DoS attack. Hopefully they will manage to resolve the situation and bring back our beloved micro-blogging service that we waste so much of our time on throughout the day.

Comments (0) | August 6th, 2009