Thursday, August 6th, 2009 by Andy Beal

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Updated: Twitter Goes Down After Facing DoS Attack

Don’t panic, don’t panic!

Twitter is down and they are working on the issue.

We know you have all kinds of cool things you wanted to tweet today, so feel free to use our comments section instead. :-)

UPDATE: Twitter is back online and apparently suffered at the hands of a denial of service attack:

On this otherwise happy Thursday morning, Twitter is the target of a denial of service attack. Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter for intended customers or users. We are defending against this attack now and will continue to update our status blog as we continue to defend and later investigate.

Hmm, you’d think that Twitter would have the infrastructure to repel a DoS attack, I guess not. This serves as a reminder that we should never fully rely on anything web based.


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16 comments on “Updated: Twitter Goes Down After Facing DoS Attack”

  1. Frank Reed Says:

    August 6th, 2009 at 10:03 am

    Oh crap! I can’t tweet, therefore I am not.

    Can’t. Live. Without. Tweets. Arrgggggghhhhhhhhhh………..
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  2. Andy Beal Says:

    August 6th, 2009 at 10:08 am

    @Frank – “I can’t live, if living is without Twitter” isn’t that how the song goes?

  3. Lisa Barone Says:

    August 6th, 2009 at 10:34 am

    Did you really just encourage me to use your comment section like I would Twitter? Because…I’d so totally do that and you don’t want it. :)

  4. Andy Beal Says:

    August 6th, 2009 at 10:37 am

    @Lisa – sorry, I forgot the “everyone except THE Lisa” caveat. Besides, I know you know how to behave here. ;-)

  5. Frank Reed Says:

    August 6th, 2009 at 10:38 am

    @Andy – Harry Nilson thanks you from the bottom of his heart for giving new life to his music
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  6. Andrew Miller Says:

    August 6th, 2009 at 10:55 am

    Wait, this isn’t like the real Twitter. There are no scantily clad women in these profiles. And I haven’t seen one link for a money-making scam yet. What are you trying to pull here, Mr. Beal?

  7. Andrew Miller Says:

    August 6th, 2009 at 10:56 am

    On an unrelated note, my productivity is WAY up this morning.
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  8. Andy Beal Says:

    August 6th, 2009 at 11:06 am

    @Andrew – yeah, mine is too!

  9. Bo Says:

    August 6th, 2009 at 11:08 am

    Twitter is down, hrm. So, what happens now to all the Tweeters out there wanting to display what they are doing?

    Do they actually get back to work?

    No, they are heading over to Facebook.

  10. Christine Sierra Says:

    August 6th, 2009 at 11:29 am

    I’ve never been through a detox program, but I am beginning to understand the concept of “the shakes”. I guess I can fill my day communicating the old fashioned way – through email. :) Thanks for the update/confirmation Andy!

  11. Luci Says:

    August 6th, 2009 at 12:08 pm

    Actually, twitter.com is still down, or at the very least refusing the load and throwing out errors. Maybe it’s a UK thing.

    What will all the tweeters do with nobody reading their updates? Maybe it’s time for a new form of twitter, that actually has the back-end structure to survive these kinds of attacks at least a little better.
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  12. Luci Says:

    August 6th, 2009 at 12:09 pm

    Update – twitter’s back up again! My mistake, must of been a network error on my part.
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  13. Bruce (GayPatriot) Says:

    August 6th, 2009 at 12:37 pm

    Facebook was down at the same time. I wonder if the Iranian government has targeted both sites for some reason today?
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  14. Jhelo Cruz Says:

    August 7th, 2009 at 11:50 am

    Good to know that Twitter is back! It’s been a difficult day without Twitter.
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    August 10th, 2009 at 1:59 pm

    [...] Maybe you heard the sound of the world crashing down and people actually being productive at work yesterday while Twitter was unreachable. It wasn’t long before the full explanation came out—the popular microblogging site was the victim of a DoS attack. [...]

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    August 11th, 2009 at 8:44 pm

    [...] Let’s hope it’s not another DDoS attack. [...]