I want my Twitter!

Posted on 06 August 2009 by


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The very popular social networking site “Twitter” has been out of service for most of this morning.

Millions of Twitter users are probably going through serious Tweet-withdrawl by now.

I know I am.  :)

Anyone know what’s up?

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  • Joel McLaughlin

    Huh? It’s down??

    Show’s how much I pay attention to the color coding in gwibber! :-D

    http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/twitter.com

    That site says YUP! It’s down.

  • Joel McLaughlin

    Scoble says it under a DOS attack!

    http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer

  • Joel McLaughlin
  • Larry Greenberg

    IT’S BACK!!!!!!

  • Joel McLaughlin

    Cool. It was a DDOS attack. Likely!

  • Joel McLaughlin

    Hmm…

    http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/twitter.com

    That says it’s still down. Maybe it’s down for some, but not all??

  • Judie Lipsett

    It’s up for me, but Facebook is being flaky. :-P

  • Joel McLaughlin

    Gmail is acting up on me too. Facebook has been screwed for me for at least a week. Try clicking on my profile. Just try it. You can’t see it. I am ALSO not blocking any of my friends either. Been pissed at Facebook all week for that!

  • http://www.geardiary.com Michael Anderson

    I was busy at home this morning, and noticed as I was juggling three laptops that I was getting intermittent login errors … but eventually it sorted itself.

  • Joel McLaughlin

    Gmail ok now. I was beginning to wonder if it was a all out attack on social networking sites.

  • Joel McLaughlin

    Twitter seems to be back for me….DoS is rising on the twitter trends.

  • http://www.geardiary.com Michael Anderson

    TwitterFox keeps toggling Red & Blue for me – up, down, up, down …

    Facebook has been largely cooked for me all day as well.

  • http://www.geardiary.com Judie Lipsett
  • Jason Reese

    Gee, I wonder if Twitter’s sys admins ever changed their server password from “password” hehe.

  • http://www.geardiary.com Judie Lipsett

    They did change it…to 12345! ;-)

  • http://www.geardiary.com Michael Anderson

    Hey – that is the combination on my luggage! :D

  • Nos1959

    On a serious note, check out the possible reason why Twitter et al were down today. Rather scary…Sourced from CNET:

    http://news.cnet.co/8301-27080_3-10305200-245.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1

  • http://www.geardiary.com Judie Lipsett

    Here’s a working link – and yes, it is very scary:

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10305200-245.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1