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Twitter still under attack and having issues



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Well yesterday twitter went under attack and for a good portion of the day the site was unassailable by many.  According to twitter the attacks are coming from (or started from) The Republic of Georgia (Russia) and they are basically flooding their systems.  Now this didn't just hit twitter alone but it also hit facebook, livejournal and google.  The only reason those sites didn't go down is unlike twitter they use more then one network provider.  Yesterday twitter was shut down to around 45 million users.

So how was twitter attacked?  Well it seems that there was a massive spam emails that went out that basically pointed to some URL's on twitter.  As ppl started to click the links it caused a massive system overload on twitter and that produced a "Denial Of Service".

OK who still uses twitter and if you do did you have any issues yesterday or today?  I twitter but I admit it doesn't happen often.

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