# ./ddos twitter.com

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ddos-twitter-com/71710>\
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [August 6, 2009, 11:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ddos-twitter-com/71710 "2009-08-06T11:42:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 13\
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**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 11:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ddos-twitter-com/71710/1 "2009-08-06T11:42:37Z")

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**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 11:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ddos-twitter-com/71710/2 "2009-08-06T11:55:18Z")

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**Author:** ![SkunkApe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/skunkape/32/7575_2.png) [@SkunkApe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SkunkApe)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 11:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ddos-twitter-com/71710/3 "2009-08-06T11:57:01Z")

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**Author:** ![Bull49](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bull49/32/7381_2.png) [@Bull49](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bull49)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 11:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ddos-twitter-com/71710/4 "2009-08-06T11:57:53Z")

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🙂

(i don’t know what’s going on in here.)

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**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 12:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ddos-twitter-com/71710/5 "2009-08-06T12:14:59Z")

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Now how will people know when people they’ve never met before scratch their ass?

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**Author:** ![JDMSIR](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jdmsir/32/7376_2.png) [@JDMSIR](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JDMSIR)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 12:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ddos-twitter-com/71710/6 "2009-08-06T12:19:43Z")

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:meh:

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**Author:** ![Geoff](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geoff/32/6104_2.png) [@Geoff](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geoff)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 12:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ddos-twitter-com/71710/7 "2009-08-06T12:22:38Z")

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:io:

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**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 12:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ddos-twitter-com/71710/8 "2009-08-06T12:25:52Z")

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RT @joedinardo I wonder how much corporate productivity increased while both facebook and twitter were down

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**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 12:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ddos-twitter-com/71710/9 "2009-08-06T12:37:03Z")

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I wonder if the stock market is up today :lol:

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**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 12:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ddos-twitter-com/71710/10 "2009-08-06T12:41:20Z")

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SOMEONE SHOULD HAVE TWITTER CONTACT THE DOCTOR OF DOS!

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**Author:** ![King](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/king/32/7329_2.png) [@King](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/King)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 12:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ddos-twitter-com/71710/11 "2009-08-06T12:43:58Z")

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both work for me am i missing something

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**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 1:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ddos-twitter-com/71710/12 "2009-08-06T13:56:25Z")

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Ongoing denial-of-service attack 6 hours ago

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.

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.

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**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2009, 6:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ddos-twitter-com/71710/13 "2009-08-07T06:34:54Z")

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> **[Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user](https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-facebook-attack-targeted-one-user/)**
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> Accounts of pro-Georgian blogger were targeted in denial-of-service attack that led to outage at Twitter and problems at Facebook, Blogger, and LiveJournal, Facebook CSO says.

If anyone hasn’t seen it, it turned out to be targeting one user.