Facebook and Twitter down: Social networking meltdown
ZDNet — Updated: 22:44 BST. Twitter came under a co-ordinated denial-of-service (DOS) attack earlier on today which left the site paralysed for a good hour or so.
At roughly 7am PST the site was attacked in a co-ordinated fashion, and the entire network was down for at least 30 minutes. Over the last couple of years, the site stability has been quite strong and the infrastructure was strengthened through a series of updates and scheduled downtime. However, there is little-to-nothing any site can do against denial of service attacks unless they have direct support from their service or network provider.
The ironic thing was that people were trying to use Twitter to search for tweets which told them if Twitter was down, or going down.
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