Twitter is down. I repeat. Twitter is down

An attack to shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter was successful for hours. Twitter was inaccessible for several hours on Thursday morning. The company said it suffered a denial-of-service attack, in which hackers command scores of computers toward a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from getting through.


According to GMA News:
The attacks appear to have been related to the Russia-Georgia political conflict. They started with a flurry of spam e-mail messages sent out this morning that contained links to pages written by a single activist on multiple social networking sites, according to Bill Woodcock, research director of the San Francisco-based Packet Clearing House, a nonprofit that tracks Internet traffic.

For tweet fans, Twitter is a communications standard rather than just a social-media brand.

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