According to Mashable, Twitter’s currently under a DDOS attack today:

Twitter’s extended downtime today, now lasting almost 2 hours, has a malicious cause. Twitter has revealed that it’s defending against a Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS), in which the target is typically saturated with so many fake requests that the victim is unable to return legitimate ones.

Knowing that the cause is a malicious attack does take Twitter off the hook to some degree – it may have been assumed that the site was simply failing to scale properly, as had happened in the past. DDoS attempts are difficult to defend against even for some established sites.

Ironic, given today’s post by Chris Johnson about how to prepare for Twitter’s eventual demise, no?

What happened though, is people flocked to facebook, which in turn had its own share of problems as well. I’ve also seen reports that StumbleUpon has been acting wonky today.

Does someone have it out for social networking sites? Hmm…

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Twitter’s Under Attack Today

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