Umm.... If it's lasted 90 minutes, I would think it no longer qualifies as 'breaking news'.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Thanks for sharing. I'm here in FriendFeed wondering why it is all so quiet :)
- Hector
Tina: You want us to post every minute Twitter goes down? You'd be flooded! :)
- BreakingNewsOn (BNO News)
BNO: lol. nice one. and thanks for still posting on FF and not just sticking to via the twitter mode.
- Freddie Benjamin
Answer the BreakingNews Robot, Tina! DO IT OR IT WILL CRASH FRIENDFEED LIKE IT DID TWITTER!
- Christopher Harley
Certainly not BNO. But the Twitter/FB/Posterous outage has been posted multiple times by multiple people all morning, so adding your own post 1.5 hours after the fact just didn't strike me as 'breaking news'. That's all.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
You can still read tweets on Twitter about Twitter being down: http://bit.ly/lA7HK
- Gus
I guess this should be --> BrokenNews: 'Twitter is broke'.
- 1x29
How about the biggest beneficiary of the Twitter DoS will be --- FF!
- Thom Kennon
Facebook seems to be experiencing some difficulties as well. A link perhaps?
- Ian Geldard
As soon as Twitter's status blog confirmed the DoS attack, my first destination was FriendFeed. This just confirms that the value of microblogging isn't in one service like Twitter or FF, it's in having a network of interconnected services.
- Jayson Elliot
Twitter API is working again, web is still offline. We use our own panel to update to Twitter and it said my message was posted: "The social networking site Twitter says it is recovering from a major cyber attack, taking the popular site offline for more than 2 hours.". Didn't go through to Friendfeed though.
- BreakingNewsOn (BNO News)
Thank goodness for FriendFeed, I can still get my BNO News updates!
- Colin Schmitt
Still nothing here. Neither from web nor API... :'(
- Clément
OMG what am I gonna do! Somebody get me a paper bag!
- okorioth
Twitter addicts are probably refreshing twitter.com every 5 seconds, putting another load on the server which keeps it from getting back online :)
- BreakingNewsOn (BNO News)
I can live without it, for two reasons - a) I know no one is posting anything right now anyway, and b) I'm on FriendFeed.
- Mike White
Ohhhh. You are not going to believe this. It's breaking news on the AFP news wire!
- BreakingNewsOn (BNO News)
i just had a piece published by Huffington Post and this outage disturbs my ability to share my post with my followers and the community at large ;((( if anyone is interested..http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zachary...
- Zachary Adam Cohen
you can tweet it later Zachary, don't worry.
- Mike White
They should unplug the servers from internet and then fix them... :)
- S6.