Twitter Goes Down, Down, Down

By  |  Thursday, August 6, 2009 at 9:23 am

Twitter goes downWhen Twitter is having reliability problems, the site is usually able to at least summon up a cheery FailWhale by way of apology. This morning, however, the nation’s  hottest social networing site has been the victim of a massive and effective Distributed Denial of Service attack. The problems apparently started around 6am PT this morning, and continue on–I’m only able to get in sporadically at the moment.

The site is hiccuping back to life, though, which is good, since it lets Twitter fans tweet about the unavailability of Twitter:

Twitter down

Here’s hoping that the trouble ends soon, and that we learn what happened–and that there aren’t too many Twitterhaters out there who are openly or silently gleeful this morning…

 
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    August 15th, 2009 at 9:08 am

    Oh yes! I logged in with my Twitter account when this crap happens. I can still send tweets but it takes time before I can refresh my page and received messages.

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