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Twitter Outage Ongoing, Denial Of Service Attack
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TechCrunch on 05 August, 2009 08:21:00
 
(TechCrunch) We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly.").
Update 2: It's a denial of service attack. Twitter's status update says: "We are
defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again
shortly."
Since most of you spend your entire work day screwing around on Twitter (luckily
I actually get paid to do this), you may be left wondering what to do now. No
worries, we have a list. Meanwhile, I can't Tweet (TM) that it's raining here in
Palo Alto, or go on a 140 character rage over PG&E shutting off my electricity
for no reason at all yesterday, forcing me to come into the office at 4 am this
morning. ...Go to source