HomeSo this morning, like many other users on the web noticed Twitter was down. Checking the Twitter Status Page first showed they were aware of an issue and investigating. Then several minutes later the page was updated with the following message:
We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly.
Update: the site is back up, but we are continuing to defend against and recover from this attack.
I sent an email to the guys over at Internet Storm Center (ISC) notifying them of the outage, probably just as many other ISC readers had done. When they updated their site with the information about the possible DD0S attack directed at Twitter I had a good and painful laugh at what I saw.
The share to Facebook and Twitter buttons sitting there, mocking me as only as a Social Network can do. How do I get the word out that Twitter is down if Twitter is down?!? It’s a paradox of the worst kind.
With the reports that Facebook is also having problems is my only choice to blow the dust off my Digg account and hope that it gains some attention and gets bumped up? Time for the next new idea? Social fads are only as good as the networks running them.
