Yesterday Twitter had several major outages and their fight continues. Mashable reports:
As we head into the weekend, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has posted another update about the current status of the service. On the Twitter blog, Stone writes:
“In the past 24 hours, we’ve been contending with a variety of attacks that continue to change in nature and intensity. We’re working to restore access to apps built on the Twitter platform that were affected by defensive measures—there was some overcompensation on our part as we tune our system to deal with this scale of attack.”
Regarding reports that the attack is related to the Russia-Georga political conflict, Stone writes that the attacks “appear to have been geopolitical in motivation. However, we don’t feel it’s appropriate to engage in speculative discussion about these motivations.”
Are you having problems with Twitter? If so, leave a comment and tell us what’s happening for you. Even after they were ‘up’ yesterday evening, I had Tweet Deck trouble and some TweetLater problems continuing today.
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Hi Kathy,
I appreciate your post and getting as accurate information about Twitter problems as possible.
I did have some difficulty Thursday morning. Couldn’t RT or DM. Got better by noon Thursday (PST) though … and now all is well!
Thanks!
Phil Johncock
Twitter dealt with it admirably. They tracked down what they considered to be the source (or sources), publicized as they went along, and got things up and running as quickly as possible. There were ramifications for days afterward – slow system, system not available for short periods of time, etc.
There isn’t much anyone can do to stave off a denial of service attack. Here is a good definition of DoS – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack
As far as how Twitter users dealt with it – some had withdrawal pains
while others tried to find out what was going on and went on with their business.
Problems with Twitter? Luckily I did not encounter any. Anyway, what did Twitter do about the problem? Did they make necessary steps to prevent it from occuring in the future? How did many Twitter users deal with the problem?
It’s good to know they try to act on such problems easily and inform their patrons so that they won’t be clueless of the causes of inconvenience.