OMG, I can't even stay connected to Facebook at all. Been trying to chat with a friend (using Adium) and connect...disconnect...connect...etc.
- Kenley Neufeld
This is teaching us something about the framework of the current Internet traffic patterns. We're watching cascade scale problems from one major Internet program going down.
- Melanie Reed
interesting possibility: a massive DoS attack on all SNS properties at the same time! with no SNS people might go at each other tooth and nail. this would make a great Onion report!
- MikeAmundsen
I'm with Helen on this one - after Scoble's Great Unfollow, Twitter's database is so full of holes they're having to do a massive reorg...
- Andrew Terry
Posterous seems to be down, too, for what it's worth.
- Eric Johnson
Posterous is working for me (for now)
- Susan Beebe
You can read "panic tweets" from Twitterers about Twitter being down: http://bit.ly/lA7HK
- Gus
@ Andrew - there's a model in Chaos Theory where you take a cube, hollow a hole in the exact centre of each side, then keep repeating the process - end result? A finite cube containing an infinite number of holes :)
- Iain Baker
Susan - Posterous is back for me, too. And was a 500 server error, so probably not DoS related.
- Eric Johnson
So I guess we ought to help the folks at Twitter out and shut down our Twitter clients? I expect that zillions of API calls aren't helping their situation right now...
- Eric Johnson
Facebook, LiveJournal, and Twitter all down, to much of a coincidence to be a coincidence? API calls all the way
- courtney benson
Wondering now if that suggestions a massive DDoS attack launched against a bunch of sites, or possibly also infrastructure issues as well?
- Susan Beebe
my FF has crashed every time I've tried to subscibe
- WarLord
It does feel like everything's either under treacle or attack. I'm hoping it's treacle.
- Dan Biddle
@biz ---> Thursday, August 06, 2009 Denial of Service Attack On this otherwise happy Thursday morning, Twitter is the target of a denial of service attack. Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter for intended customers or users. We are defending against...
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- Susan Beebe
Thought that was just my slow Australian connection - or the huge full moon in the sky tonight o)
- Chris Loft
Of course there is, the two sites are highly interconnected and trouble with one will cause problems with any service which continues to access twitter to update their users profiles
- Lillian Banchik
Chris Loft - of course everything takes longer to get to Australia! I'm with amygeek - let's blame it on N. Korea...
- Baffled
from fftogo
Ohhh... I don't recall Twitter being down for such a long period of time, although I must say I've seen a sudden rise of spam lately.
- Bruno Mertins
God, just figured out that we would all have to go back to talking to one another in person or on the phone if this continues.
- courtney benson
cnet article, "There has been no indication that any of these various attacks are connected. But it's probably not a coincidence that they all coincide with the annual Defcon hacker convention." (Twitter crippled by denial-of-service attack) -- http://news.cnet.com/8301-13...
- Susan Beebe
Baffled I've been trying to post this to you at Twitter -- I knew a hooter / thought - did she have a suitor / or was I too late? /// #haiku#haikuchallenge
- Chris Loft
I wonder how much impact (think overhead) those stupid Spam Bots cause for twitter? 24% of all twitter traffic is due to spam bots - augh!
- Susan Beebe
Courtney - LOL ... that is too funny!
- Susan Beebe
They're probably both the government. Real talk.
- professor daddyo
military is testing inet/SNS preparedness/vulns.
- MikeAmundsen
About 8-12 hrs ago, Facebook kept giving me "Database Write Failed" errors: "An error occurred while writing to our database. Please try again later or contact customer support."
- Mitchell Tsai
Yep, I've been getting all kinds of Facebook "transport errors" while attempting to wall post, comment, etc.
- Susan Beebe
Derek - that was slow, but CNN is getting better! LOL
- Susan Beebe
Twitter Status Blog - 2nd Update: "Ongoing denial-of-service attack -- 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."
- Susan Beebe
No way! Remember Paul Buchheit, one of FriendFeed's founders, coined the term "Do No Evil" when he was at Google. The FF team is really cool, no bad dudes over there!
- Susan Beebe
FWIW, I always thought Google's catchphrase "do no evil" would have been better when qualifying a statement, like this: "Let the old lady finish crossing the street; don't be evil"
- Richard Walker
Twitter Status Blog UPDATE [12:46pm EST] : "Update (9:46a): As we recover, users will experience some longer load times and slowness. This includes timeouts to API clients. We’re working to get back to 100% as quickly as we can."
- Susan Beebe
Here's a Facebook "Database Write Error" I saw repeatedly last night ~1-3 am ET, before the DDoS attacks this morning. http://ff.im/6fUfO I'm not sure if there weren't precursors to the main DDoS attacks at 6 am today, but Facebook was having weird issues a few hours earlier.
- Mitchell Tsai
Facebook kept giving me the ol' "transport error" messages - tons of 'em too!
- Susan Beebe
Funny. I could not log into Twitter, Tweetdeck or Facebook for over an hour. Then I had this sudden horror that an aweful event, such as a terrorist attack, would flood both sites with traffic and cause this. I went to CNN- there was the story of Twitters DDoS Attack.
- E-Advocate Network
Pretty scary stuff, huh? I wonder who would be behind all this. Hope they catch 'em and lock 'em up!
- Susan Beebe
Susan, I also got lots of AJAX transport errors & long delays at Facebook, but those happena ll the time. This was the first time I've seen the "database write error".
- Mitchell Tsai
To deal with future network problems, we need an emergency backup mechanism to access twitter: carrier pigeons. http://crankypm.com/2009...
- DGentry
Hope they catch them too Susan. I sure was releived to find it was a cyber attack causing the flood instead of people reporting on a real life attack though! I do worry about real time events right now that are lagging coverage due to this: #iranelection.
- E-Advocate Network
Yay!! Google, facebook and twitter are investigating the DDoS attacks today! See Mashable's post about it here: http://mashable.com/2009...
- Susan Beebe
Seriously, even Friendfeend, via Buddyfeed client, was unavailable a few times. I'll venture a guess the DoS attack targetted a whole heap of social media at the one time.
- George Hall (Australia)
That bird pic at the top of the thread is intriguing. Is it public domain?
- George Hall (Australia)
Hardly use Facebook. When I update facebook it's when I do a mass update through Ping.fm, other than that I hardly use it.
- Patrick
Where did you get the dead bluebird icon? I love it.
- shelisrael1
I think this is a definite competitor for the Fail Whale!
- Justin Davey
Are they both routed through the same Bay Area server network? Just askin'. Maybe there's a rapid growth of Twitter-to-FB feeds that's screwing up everything? I also like the dead bluebird & upside down FB graphics!
- Cathryn Hrudicka
I had much trouble w/ FB this morning as well. It got better after the rain stopped. A day w/o SM is a day without sunshine.
- shelisrael1
AP reports that a pro-Abkhazia activist blogger, who uses the account name "Cyxymu," (the name of a town in the Republic of Georgia) is related to the attacks on SNS. Whether the pro-side (Georgia) or con-side (Russia) coordinated the attacks is unknown. "There's very little way of distinguishing which side was taking this action, because either side could hypothetically benefit from...
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- Mitchell Tsai
lots Blogger as well and Livejournal. It was a concentrated attack.
- Rob Cairns
Mitchell - wow, thank you for the awesome insights into the DDoS attack story. I truly appreciate the info and citations you kindly provided here. Good stuff, as always!!
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
Cathryn - I flipped the facebook logo upside down - glad you like it!
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
seems like whatever Google did mitigated the attack on their end, it'd be interesting to see what data google could provide to twitter and facebook on how to protect from ddos attacks in the future
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
from IM
Mike - agreed!! Google's insights would be really important for future hardening of systems to defend DDoS attacks
- Susan Beebe
Fri 8/7 UPDATE: @Twitter: "Due to defense measures some Twitter clients are unable to communicate with our API, and many users are unable to tweet via SMS."
- Susan Beebe
Fri 8/7 UPDATE: Twitter STATUS Blog: "Restoring API and SMS [12:42pm EST] Due to defensive measures we’ve taken against the ongoing denial-of-service attack, some Twitter clients are unable to communicate with our API, and many users are unable to tweet via SMS. We are working as quickly as possible to restore our full service. "
- Susan Beebe
Why do you use Facebook ? I mean it's a site for < 17 years old
- Thierry Lhôte
Now I know I might not rate very highly in the scheme of life and the population but NEVER have I been called a no one. I quite enjoyed those intros
- Peter Horsman
from twhirl
It may be your own fault. I think that in the pre-season the main video(s) and the "pre-video" were the same. You trained us too well. That's the only explanation since we pretty much hang on every gratis word descending from your larynx:-)
- Vanessa Constanti
Maybe the problem is you are not getting enough attention. Well maybe Sunday night when you are the trash chat master you can show us a thing or two. I love your intros. And I am now especially careful of dangerous gaits.
- Susan Kaul
from twhirl
I got started with the 30DC soooo late that I am still trying to figure out how to do things and complete all the per season lessons before going on th the actual challenge. OH I do wish I had more time in the day. Anyway I am loving it and learning so much. THANKS to all.
- Phil
As I am not wanting to miss anything, I do watch each of the intro videos!
- Bernadette
Don't worry Ed, I still care. LOL! My team watches it, I can tell you. They all notice you don't change your clothes for 7 days now....
- Hendry Lee
from twhirl
keep up the intro vid's Ed - and increase the danger level!!!
- Mike Talbot
from twhirl
Talk about moving the free line Ed. ;-P
- Mike Hill
from twhirl
Been watching faithfully - might have a look at Olympics ceremony- probably not- just watch day seven again on second thoughts. Can't wait for the next emu attack - all v ninja
- Rebecca Kellock
even my 5 month yr old son is watching them- it's very educational
- Tommy Gordon
from twhirl
Television requires more drama to keep the audience. a Crocodile or 2 attacking would help
- 8seonds
Well people are missing out if they don't watch them, very educational and entertaining!
- Curtis Miller
Maybe i'll go back and watch them all later
- Matt Leitch
I've only just finished Day Two, but I'm loving the videos...as a "Yank" I love listening to the Ed, Bob, and Dan....and seeing the kangaroos! :)
- Rebekah
They are the only thing I can watch until 1:00 am download hour on my satellite connection. So you have gotten offended too quickly. Love them--the gate was almost slapstick lol
- Omitade Adediran
I love the intro's. I was really sorry to hear about the gate smaking into your ^@%#$@^#
- Ian
My favorite one is when an Emu look at Ed while crossing the screen... :)
- Hendry Lee
from twhirl
I watch them, they're great, but I click within the training page itself and it doesn't give me the option to rate...
- Yvonne Hands
Don't feel sad Ed. I've been watching you in your natural habitat as well.
- ChrisDudman
I thought It was the same old movie @ every training, silly me. Ill watch them from now on
- ZoekmachineGuru
from twhirl
don't worry Ed! I'm watching them! They're great. i particularly like the fact your using the rule of thirds - camera techniques. As a film & TV media student, this makes me happy.
- Glenn Mason
Domain prices only vary by about a $1 per year. I would look for a service that has a clean easy to use interface and good support. I left GoDaddy when they decided to throw ease-of-use out the window. I found every time I needed to make a simple change I was swearing at the interface, so I moved every one of my domains off of their service. It was a pain in the butt and I'm glad I did it. Plus I don't get 20 upsells every time I renew. :-)
- Craig Eubanks
Now that's odd. I move all domains I buy (on ebay for example) to GoDaddy (except .co.uk but I'm not buying any more of those, anyway), because I like their interface better than most.
- Frann Leach
Would people like to share some great marketing words for the start of the copy writing. Dan used "Discover" and "killer" which just rolled of his tongue but I keep getting a mind block as not used to this?
It's not just the words, it is also understanding WHY and WHEN to use them. I also recommend you go study Gary Halbert's newsletters. You will learn more about copywriting from his totally FREE website than any other place on earth. Halbert was a genius and totally gifted copywriter.
- Craig Eubanks
Imagine, Did you know, I'm sure you know, I couldn't believe this...
- Frann Leach
Me too! I submitted a problem ticket for this. I am having the same problem with the work around solution too.
- Debbie
I like the option to spend some $ Well done.
- Bjorn Weisser
Oh-oh--nameboy.com has fallen over from the traffic.
- Ken Horovatin
from twhirl
Absofreakinglutely brilliant!!! I can't believe the awesomeness of the first six days. If it continues at this rate I'm going to have to up my meds.
- anniebinns
Insufficient data is from Google - I tried manually and get the same thing. Samurai is just pulling what Google is giving it.
- Brian Shelton
from twhirl
Come on Ed...you tell us 30 DC'ers about this and then we have to wait like a kid waiting to open presents on Christmas morning :-) You're making it really hard not being a member of Immediate Edge - nice marketing plan!
- Mike
that's what is so great about 30DC. Even though there are some youngsters on the block, this is a bunch of people who can take the heat in the kitchen. The pressure from learning so much new stuff is huge. Its taking me way out of my little comfort zone and I am luvvin it!
- Graeme
Ed seemed to be deliberately speaking in a low voice. This could be an old teachers' trick to make people listen carefully, or it could be not to disturb or alert some other person in the same house.
- Andy Roberts
More ruminating on FF. Love: the fact that I get random subscribes/likes/comments from people who see me as a "friend of" someone else Dislike: no way to "mod up" comments that are really insightful or clever.