Tech | August 06, 2009 | 7 comments

Twitter Downed by Hacker

source: http://www.wcbs880.com/Twitter-is-Down/4953125

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A hacker attack shut down Twitter on Thursday morning, and Facebook also said it was ``looking into'' possible site problems.
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7 comments // Twitter Downed by Hacker

  • EmmaO
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      EmmaO  

    • Hopefully the site error problems that had been going through by the two sites will finally be resolve so as not to create inconvenience among its users. Twitter down causes people of stunted intelligence and teenagers (of stunted intelligence) everywhere to cry and shake uncontrollably, and Facebook slow…panic and chaos will set in. Dogs and cats will live together, and there will be mass hysteria – among people of stunted intelligence! Many will throw cash advances and massive efforts to prevent Twitter down being a condition they have to face again.

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    • 2 years ago
  • el3azzi
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    • @ras_menelik the attack was orchested by a Russian hackers against a Gergian user of Twitter, I read that this Georgian user was a editor of a blog who describes the horror of the war provoked between Rusia and Georgia last year.

    • 2 years ago
  • artemis6
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    • The popular site has been subject to a so-called denial-of-service attack, according to the firm's official blog.

      Denial-of-service attacks take various forms but often involve a company's servers being flooded with data in an effort to disable them.

      Facebook has also said it is "looking into" possible problems with its site.

      "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," said Twitter co-founder Biz Stone on the company's blog.

      The service was restored shortly after the blog post, but the company's status page suggests that the site is "continuing to defend against and recover from this attack".

      A ComScore study suggests the site had around 45 million users worldwide as of June 2009.

      However, as many users interact with the service through mobile phones or third-party software, the actual number of users is likely to be higher.

      A spokeswoman told PA news agency that Facebook was looking into reported problems on its site as well.

    • 2 years ago
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