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Is there any connection between Twitter being down & Facebook being super buggy this morning? What do you think? Discuss:

August 6 - Comment - Like - Share

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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

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I just reset my router twice thinking it was me. - Kenley Neufeld

A feedback loop that keeps knocking both services down? - Paul Jacobson

I either blame Scoble of #blameDrewsCancer - Hel Hel

Helen :) - Susan Beebe

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

Mashable article: Twitter Down: Twitter Doesn’t Know Why ---> http://mashable.com/2009... - Susan Beebe

Just checked with my FB peeps, and the weather over here is much better. Was very hard to get posting done over there. - Brenda Young

This is the longest outage twitter's had in a LONG time... something is definitely wrong... ouch - Susan Beebe

Yes, FB is receiving more traffic and twitter says its a DOS attack http://status.twitter.com/post... - cheapsuits

http://friendfeed.com/dariusm... - Matthew DeVries

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

Twitter Status: "Update: we are defending against a denial-of-service attack." http://status.twitter.com/post... -- 11:00 am EST - Susan Beebe

(can something be *full* of holes or is that oxymoron?) - Andrew Terry

Andrew -LOL - Susan Beebe

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

Wonder if it's Iran? http://friendfeed.com/dariusm... - Matthew DeVries

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

Oh no. Not Disqus as well. Where, in the name of God, is this going to end ? - Andy C

@Iain - Really? That's so cool! - Andrew Terry

Some post mentioned a major core router being down in GA, not sure how reliable that is. - Jack Wilson, K4SAC

TWITTER suffering a dDOS attack official at 11am EDT - OLDBEACHBUM

Jack - Thank you, something big is brewing here...not looking good - Susan Beebe

Ooooh - let's blame North Korea! (or are we not allowed to since they let the reporters go yesterday?) - amygeek

I'm assuming this will take CNN a few days to report. - Derek Huether, PMP, CSM

Derek - hahaha good one! - 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... more... - 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

http://whentwitterisdown.com/ - Carlo Nasuti

http://istwitterdown.com - Susan Beebe

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

Looks like Twitter is back - at least for now. I was able to get in. - Alex Hellstrom

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

They're being hit by a DOS attack, http://status.twitter.com/post... - Rob Fahrni

CNN finally picked up the story. Slooooooow - Derek Huether, PMP, CSM

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

my Blog post --> http://www.susanbeebe.com/social-... - Susan Beebe

Coordinated attack by FriendFeed? ;) - Jemm

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

YAY twitter is back up!!! :) - Susan Beebe

@Susan: I know, just kidding by stating a thing which is way too absurd to be true;) - Jemm

LOL - 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 pancakhaus Walker

See GigaOm's VISUAL on the Twitter outage (web traffic data provided by AlertSite.com) -- http://gigaom.com/2009... - Susan Beebe

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

Update: Now FACEBOOK admits they too were subjected to DDoS attack today too!! --> RT @AdamOstrow: Facebook Problems Also the Result of DDoS Attack - http://mashable.com/2009... (via http://ff.im/6fTyC) - 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

I blame North Korea - Jim Goldstein from iPhone

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

Facebook IS being super buggy. So it's not just me. - Ethan

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... more... - Mitchell Tsai

lots Blogger as well and Livejournal. It was a concentrated attack. - Rob Cairns

Photo credit for dead twitter bird ---> http://iStockPhoto.com. - Susan Beebe from BuddyFeed

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

Thanks for the photo credit details, Susan. - George Hall (Australia)

I think the dead twitter bird is cute! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

yes, I belive there is close connection. - eva

Iran - heretic_twit

wondering what the final verdict will be on the DDoS attack and how we can prevent them in the future .... hmmm - Susan Beebe

Down but not own................. - Kevin J Hatton

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

Thierry - What are you talking about? Facebook is biggest with Geriatrics and College kids. Are you just kidding around or something? - Matthew DeVries

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Penguin USB drive - http://www.engadget.com/2009...

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Adorable!! - Susan Beebe from iPhone

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Wow, new FireFox ver 3.5 browser is really awesome... that is all.

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Riyad sand storm - massive sandstorm hits Saudi Arabia : International News Bureau - http://www.intnewsbureau.com/riyad-s...

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Crazy. Video and more pictures here: http://thechive.com/2009... - Mona Nomura

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Golly! - Kate Foy

unbelievable. OMG!! - karthick

no, please. - ::Kristen::

That looks unreal. - Tsega Dinka

ut oh, they inherited the curse and awakened the mummy, someone call Brendan Fraser! - Adam Turetzky

seen that in Texas a few times in my life, actually. not on the same scale, however, as it was usually "just" dust. - Joe Silence

Crazy. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

Eerie. - Chris Lasher

I've got friends in Riyadh. Sandstorms are crazy there. Amazing how it's captured on photos. - Dee S.

Frightening! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

I've seen this in Phoenix too. Maybe not quite as big, but it sure felt like it when you're watching it come at you. A giant wall of dirt. - Lindsay is in 20-ten

that is an incredible sight. Wow! - Anna Lynn M.

Grew up in Muscat, Oman. Have been in these massive sand storms a few times when my dad used to take me on his plant inspections in the dessert. [Edit] They are not as frightening as they look. - Kamath (नमः)

Kamath - it sure _looks_ horrifying, from the picture. Wow. - Rick Cogley

Looks painful! - Alison Robb Astair

I've been in Saudi sandstorms, but this is something else entirely... wow. - Michael W. May

crazy.. - yagami

We had a mini sandstorm while in Baghdad. It just looks strange. Not scary, just weird. - Michelle Martinez

Yikes. I might just never complain about an Israeli sharav again. - Miriam

creepy - Susan Beebe

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