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How much does Twitter mean to you?

Aug 07

PhilTechnology DoS, Facebook, Internet, iPhone, Mac, social networking, tweeting, Twitter No Comments

I am sure that hundreds, if not thousands, of other bloggers have gone in to the merit of Twitter, and how it can be used in every day life, work, etc. So what I wanted to say, fairly quickly, is how much it means to me.

What has caused a lot of the twitterers, tweeps, tweeple or whatever we should respectfully call a collection of Twitter users, shudder and evaluate the importance of the service to them, is the Denial of Service (DoS) attack on Twitter and Facebook yesterday, and which they continue to fight at this moment (some API features are still broken apparently).

My first thought “Twitter is down, I must tell people. Oh no, I can’t tweet, Twitter is down! Now what do I do?”. I felt a bit helpless so I Googled it, obviously, then blogged about it yesterday, even though this is a brand new blog, and I am the only one reading it…

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Twitter under DoS Attack – right now!

Aug 06

PhilTechnology Denial of Service, DoS, Hackers, Hacking, Outage, Tech, Twitter, Wired 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!