Ted Chan

I tried logging into twitter this morning and wasn’t able to login. I’ve been testing hootsuite for the last couple of days. It’s a great client and has a lot of potential. Hootsuite showed that notice for twitter having a DOS – Denial Of Service Attack.

About 20 minutes ago I checked again to see what’s been happening in the twittersphere or is it twitterverse and saw the same messages.

I went to checkout the status update from twitter to see if there were any updates. It still shows we are dealing with “Ongoing denial-of-service attack”. That’s what they said 17 hours ago and it seems to be continuing; at least for me.

When I logged into Hootsuite just now I still see the same message. And when I clicked on Twitter Login I saw a connection was reset error. =(

So I hopped over to google news and was skimming through some of the news.

According to the Wall Street Journal article Twitter, Facebook Sites Disrupted by Web Attack There was an attack this morning at 9 am EDT on both twitter and facebook.

Facebook seems to be up and running for me. But Twitter is still down.

Side Note About Google News
It was interesting to me that it made the front page of google news.

The other thing that I noticed, and maybe it’s because I haven’t really been paying much attention to this in news. But there was a plus sign to click on that allowed me to watch a video about the Twitter DOS attacks in google news directly without having to be redirected to youtube or google video.

It looks like google is adding the universal search or universal component to other things besides just google search.

Here’s the link directly to the twitter dos video.

It’s interesting to see how we react to withdrawal of being able to use twitter when it’s not available anymore. It’s a little like losing the electricity or internet connection. You forget what it’s like without it and how much it’s become a part of your life.

I remember that twitter would go up and down due to heavy traffic loads about a year ago. But it has been fairly consistent for me. This is the first time that I’ve heard of a Denial of Service Attack targeted towards social networking and microblogging sites.

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