Twitter is Down

Aug

06

by Mike Fleming at 10:28 am (4 Comments) Twitter

twitter_logoTwitter seems to be experiencing a rather massive outage this morning.  The social media site has been down for around an hour and a half.  There is no word on what the issue is or when it will be resolved.  Twitter’s official status blog states they are looking into the issue: Twitter Status

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4 Responses to “Twitter is Down”

  1. Robert Rawlins

    August 6, 2009
    11:31 am
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    Yeah I noticed this today, funny that Facebook has been REALLY slow from here was well, almost inaccessible, one wonders if someone’s staging a huge DOS attack or something.

  2. Brian Rinaldi

    August 6, 2009
    11:37 am
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    TechCrunch and GigaOm are reporting it is a coordinated DDoS attack.

  3. Mike Fleming

    August 6, 2009
    1:11 pm
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    It was a DDos attack, and it seems that Twitter has resolved the situation. Although the API still seems to be lagging quite a bit.

  4. Mike Fleming

    August 6, 2009
    6:56 pm
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    Seems that Twitter is now back 100%. Bet it was a long day for those guys!

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