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RT @SusanBeebe: NEWS: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates http://mashable.com/2009... #SocialMedia #Messaging #fb (via http://friendfeed.com/susanbe...)

September 10 - Comment - Like - Share

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Attack on Twitter Came in Two Waves - Bits Blog @NYTimesBits (DDoS powered by a botnet + Spam e-mails = twitter outage root cause) - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...

August 7 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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*UPDATE* from @Twitter: "Due to defense measures some Twitter clients are unable to communicate with our API, and many users are unable to tweet via SMS."

August 7 - Comment - Like - Share

Robert Freeze, Rui Pereira, Carlton Hackett and 4 other people liked this

Time to hit the bomb shelters :-) - Todd Hoff

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Including, apparently, their own web one from some browsers. - John

Sad but understandable. - Paul L. McCord Jr.

twitter search has also been a bit spotty. - Joshua Schnell

search is way off, super behind too - Susan Beebe

FWIW: I'm seeing most posts go straigh through to search. I'm viewing search on search.twitter, FF search, Tweetdeck, and PeopleBrowsr (search.peoplebrowsr.com). I'm seeing more lag than usual, but less than 10 minutes in most cases. The odd tweet may take several hours though. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Twitterberry seems to be disabled, SocialScope is intermittent at best...guess I need to give UberTwitter another go. - Jared Smith

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Social Media 2009 Outage Day 2: Everyone's Up Except Twitter | by @SarahPerez @RWW #SocialMedia - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...

August 7 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Yesterday, Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Google's Blogger were targeted yesterday by a person or persons unknown in a denial-of-service attack (DDOS) which attempted to silence the voice of one individual. The target in question was a Georgian blogger who goes by the name of "Cyxymu" online, according to recent reports from CNET. While Google withstood the attack, the other services suffered. LiveJournal and Twitter went down completely and Facebook struggled throughout the day. As we now roll into day two of the "great social media outage of 2009," you may be surprised to learn that it's not over yet. Although Facebook and LJ have recovered, Twitter is still having issues. Not only was the site down once again early this morning, Twitter developers using the API are complaining the company is sending mixed messages by reporting that they're "back up" when in reality, the ecosystem of Twitter applications are, in many cases, still unusable. This morning, Twitter was once again... more... - Susan Beebe from Bookmarklet

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And Twitter is down in strange and unpredictable ways. Seems that Twitter has real problems with network operations in general. API is working for some not others. I can even Tweet through the web from Safari, but not from Firefox on the same box. - John

What's interesting is that "whitelisted" IPs don't even work. They blocked everyone, regardless of status. - Jesse Stay

WOW, that's devastating for all API dependent applications - yikes! - Susan Beebe

I've had no issues with Twitter since it came back up yesterday afternoon. - Mathew™ one of a kind

twitter's web client users may not notice much now, but folks who develop and/or use twitter client apps that utilize twitter's API, like friendfeed, socialtoo, twitpic, tweetie, tweetdeck, seesmic, peoplebrowsr - are all affected!!!!! - Susan Beebe

Twitter's own services were affected today as well. It was very clear from watching Twitter.com, search.twitter.com, FriendFeed, Tweetdeck, and PeopleBrowsr, that there are bottlenecks and or drop points within twitter's own network. Tweets sent from API clients (TD, FF, PB, Seesmic et al) were being shown everywhere but twitter.com, and were foten slow getting to search.twitter.com.... more... - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Sorry Guys: - ThatDBD

I haven't noticed anything using TweetDeck. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Matthew, I tested extensively with all of the above apps this morning, and found that not all tweets were being sent or received by each of them. There were intermittent failures from each application. Interestingly, the most consistent failure was the twitter.com web site. I was virtually unable to tweet at all with that, and the few tweets that were accepted, were not delivered to API clients for at least 2 hours. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

I could be the One, These guys have let loose an Anti Woods Twitter worm before; Dudes just do not like Free Thinking, Free Range People, Fighters for Freedom, Freedom with actuality, Freedom paths, Freedom to Act, Freedom that works Personally. My younger HorrorScope told a sad story. It is my job in life "To Tie the Knot in the Tail of the Tiger" Dam only advice I received was To Hold On Tight. Loving the Fight Dudes, wish I could share it more with All Yall Dudes Later :--) - ThatDBD

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Twitter Blog: Denial of Service Attack - http://blog.twitter.com/2009...

August 6 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Robert Freeze, MLx, Ryan - @magicofpi and 24 other people liked this

@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 this attack now and will continue to update our status blog as we continue to defend and later investigate." - Susan Beebe from Bookmarklet

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unsurprised based on external appearances. this happens frequently to services far more important than Twitter. ;-p - Anthony Citrano

Great FF conversation here about outages, cause, impacts, etc. ----> http://ff.im/6fF0t - Susan Beebe

Greater one here --->http://friendfeed.com/dariusm... - Matthew DeVries

says who? 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

Twitter Status Blog - 3rd Update: "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

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VISUAL CHART - see Twitter web traffic drop! [pic] "Twitter Brought Down by Denial-of-Service Attack" by GigaOm @Om - http://gigaom.com/2009...

August 6 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Oğuz Serdar, Mathew™ one of a kind, Nispell and 4 other people liked this

Web traffic stats / visual chart & data provided by http://AlertSite.com - Susan Beebe

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TwCaw - was DDOS was what the crow was warning of? Fwd: Solitary Crow On Fence Post Portending Doom, Analysts Warn - http://www.theonion.com/content... (via http://friendfeed.com/allmyfe...)

August 6 - Comment - Like - Share

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

August 6 - Comment - Like - Share

Iain, Sasha Kovaliov(.com), MB Linder and 6 other people liked this

update 11:20am EST: @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 this attack now and will continue to update our status blog as we continue to defend and later investigate. http://blog.twitter.com/2009... - 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

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Denial of Service Attack Knocks Twitter Offline (Updated) | Epicenter | Wired.com - http://www.wired.com/epicent...

August 6 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

"Twitter was shut down for hours Thursday morning by what it described as an “ongoing” denial-of- service attack, silencing millions of Tweeters the world over. It’s the first major outage the service has had in four months and possibly the first ever due to sabotage. The outage appeared to begin mid-morning, EST, and affected users around the world. In a post that appeared later this morning, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, gave no indication of how the defense was going, or how long the service might be down in the brief update." - Susan Beebe from Bookmarklet

The most interesting apect is how this attack on Twitter is affecting other services. - Liz

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Is there any connection between Twitter being down & Facebook being super buggy this morning? What do you think? Discuss: http://friendfeed.com/susanbe...