Twitter under DoS Attack – right now!

Aug 06

PhilTechnology , , , , , , , No Comments

Like a large chunk of the world’s Internet using population, I have been trying to get onto Twitter repeatedly over the last few hours without success, not even seeing a ‘failwhale’ message.  But a quick Google search reveals that apparently, Twitter.com is under a massive Denial of Service (DoS) attack.

No, I’m not sure what that is either, but this article helped to explain it a lot.  It was linked to from the Wired article that reported the Twitter outage this afternoon.  Just in case anyone was wondering why they couldn’t get their fix today!