Over the past couple months there have have been at least two instances where a good number of Internet users and socialites alike that have been complaining about some recent changes to two of the hottest social networking apps out there:  Ubertwitter and Digsby.

Ubertwitter is a Twitter client for the Blackberry.  In my opinion it far exceeds the quality of any other Blackberry Twitter client currently available, and I’m not alone. Since it first became available a few months back it has caught on like wild fire. Other Blackberry client features pale in comparison to Ubertwitter. Then about a month ago an upgrade added a small advertisement to the top of the Twitter feed.  Advertisements were added without letting users know beforehand. Kicking and screaming ensued (READ)They then began to offer users the choice to pay $4.99 to get rid of the ads altogether.

Digsby is the hottest IM/Social Network aggregator on the market (w00t upstate NY!).  I first started using Digsby back when they were only allowing users to download it with private invitation codes – I don’t remember where I found that code, but I haven’t looked back since!

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So 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.