John Hood - Comments

Twitter says it's a denial of service attack http://status.twitter.com/ "We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly."

August 6 - Comment - Like - Share

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11:15 est "Update: the site is back up, but we are continuing to defend against and recover from this attack." It is not up for me. - Jay Rosen

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Not up for me either. - Allyson Kapin

ah-nope. - Deanna Zandt

I was able to pull up my profile page once, and then it went unreachable again. I'm getting tweets from people I'm subscribed to on FriendFeed, so it looks like the API is still working. - Josette Torres

Thanks for posting this. I thought the whole world had blocked me! - Shane Gibson

Still not available. - John Hood

half of my friendfeed friends are liking this story from about 500 websites, kinda annoying - Mark

There HAS to be a story behind this denial of service attack. - Jay Rosen

Happily we have FF to survive these dark times... - roland legrand

what does this mean?? are all websites susceptible to attack? I'm clearly not geeky enough to know the answers... - Helene

The search interface redirected me to http://search.twitter.com/... . Very strange. Could this mean that the attack was a flood of searches? I can confirm, no availability via http://twitter.com and API requests are not working either... OH IT'S BACK! - Ignacio Rodriguez de R,

Helene: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Jay Rosen

I've got it back... for now... - Jason Barnett

ugh - architecture fail - mike "glemak" dunn from iPhone

Twitter is back up for me. Guardian on the attack http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol... - Jay Rosen

Posts are not forwarding to FF from Twitter at a normal rate. - Jay Rosen

Jay: At this point, it looks like 4chan is taking credit for the attack: http://ff.im/6fMrU - Michael Nelson

Expect issues. Massive denial of service attacks don't just dry up. Defeating them is complex and countermeasures have collateral effects.. - George Frink

http://istwitterdown.com/ did not know about this before... - Jay Rosen

My 3rd party apps are randomly updating their streams but I still cannot successfully post a tweet. - Neeraj Kumar Agrawal

4chan calls the attack (: http://ff.im/6fMrU ) an exploit. "Denial of service" is the effect and tells us nothing about the nature of the attack. I was angry but bored at first. Now I'm curious. What caused this? - George Frink

4chan takes credit for everything. I call shenanigans. - Josette Torres from fftogo

+1 josette/shenanigans - Deanna Zandt

LiveJournal is also under DDoS attack: http://community.livejournal.com/lj_main... - Josette Torres from fftogo

Here's your story (via @davewiner): http://friendfeed.com/badhair... (edited to clean up my linkrot) - Josette Torres

correct link - http://news.cnet.com/8301-27... - mike "glemak" dunn

John Hood

I note that some peeps are merrily tweeting away whilst the rest of us languish in obscurity!

August 6 - Comment - Like - Share

spotted that too. Think its because we're in Devon and the interwebs takes longer to get down to where we are located!!! (ha!) - Laura Whitehead

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We live outside London! D'oh! :) - John Hood

How can you tell?! - Pinksy

I can see the @ replies are highlighted. :) - John Hood

Good point! - Pinksy

Sue

i feel naked when twitterless. Even if not chatting - i can see the world go by :(

August 6 - Comment - Like - Share

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how long has twitter been down laura? this is VILE! - Sue

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about an hour so far! How will we cope?!?!? :) - Laura Whitehead

10 seconds is too long! - John Hood

does make you realise how good FF is though! - Laura Whitehead

i have been using it alot more in the last few months. @katefoy is a bit of a hard core ff junky too (well i am not, she is, but do drop in for a natter about stuff occassionally!) - Sue

Agent M

Twitter's down due to a Denial of Service Attack! - http://blog.twitter.com/2009...

August 6 from Tumblr - Comment - Like - Share

Attack of the Zombie Bots! - John Hood

John Hood

Listening to R.E.M "It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)".

August 6 - Comment - Like - Share

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Couldn't resist! :) - John Hood

:) - Laura Whitehead

Michelle McCormack

And morning is the best part of the day why?

August 6 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

I'm a night owl... - John Hood

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Twitter's down! Explains why @ev looked so glum on @BBCNewsnight yesterday!

August 6 - Comment - Like - Share

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I was just about to do a tweet and discovered it's down! Using my new mouse after my old one broke. It's very nice! - Laura Whitehead

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Is it wireless? - John Hood

yes, Logitech VX Revolution, quite ergonomic too with lots of buttons on! - Laura Whitehead

I have the same one! wOOt - John Hood

Yay! Been pondering on a better one for a while, but really chuffed with it so far! - Laura Whitehead

Did you see BBC Newsnight? - John Hood

No, is the interview on iplayer yet? - Laura Whitehead

Yes, it's on iPlayer: http://tinyurl.com/nrn6ak - John Hood

Latest on the Twitter situation! http://status.twitter.com/post... - Laura Whitehead

Attack of the bots! - John Hood

:) - Laura Whitehead

(jeff)isageek

you know its bad when the fail whale doesn't even show up

August 6 - Comment - Like - Share

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I'm getting nothing on my mobile from Twitter. None o the iPhone apps are working - johnpiercy from iPhone

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Probably tired. - Brett Kelly

Ummm....that would be due to the actual service being down? Yes? - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

yep - (jeff)isageek

@johnpiercy: the site and the API are probably pretty tightly integrated, so it would make sense that one being down would indicate the other being down as well. - Brett Kelly

We'll always have FriendFeed! :-) - John Hood

Aliya Zaidi

Mass #moonwalk in London to celebrate MJ, tonight at Liverpool St at 6pm, with aftershow party at Lucky Voice in Islington.

June 26 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Awesome! - John Hood

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