David, we don't want you doing anything drastic now. Maybe start with opening a window!
Elizabeth K. Barone
· 4 months ago
Looks like rain here on the East Coast, so I don't think I can even do that!
Dave Lucas
· 4 months ago
Honestly, with the sheer volume of traffic going through twitter's servers at any given millimoment, it's a miracle they're able to keep the service up and running as well as they do!
Um, knoyce is just another shitty ning network. It's not new, and it doesn't do a damn thing.
Tim
· 4 months ago
Identi.ca anyone? I'm at http://identi.ca/tdobson anyway and the jabber integration and API is working fine.
Ulo
· 4 months ago
http://Jisko.net anyone? It's FOSS, with ajax interface, better design, twitter and jabber integration and API is working fine.
Connor Turnbull
· 4 months ago
Hmm... I wondered why Tweetdeck didn't work
tudoradam
· 4 months ago
Twitpocalypse!
ElizabethPW
· 4 months ago
They say they are back up but still defending against the DDoS ... course since a couple million people are trying to log in right now, they are *insanely* slow ...
@hill79
· 4 months ago
"Update: the site is back up, but we are continuing to defend against and recover from this attack."
*so* totally not back up!
Rokkster
· 4 months ago
Knew that one was coming! Wonder whether they had the pre-warning 'pay up or else' or this is a shot across the bows in lieu of the mega DDOS + $5m blackmail request!
Bryan
· 4 months ago
They say they are back up but still defending against the DDoS, but good luck getting into Twitter right now... :)
Stajo
· 4 months ago
It had to happen anyway. Internet is full of hackers and thus not safe but guys who run twitter are with experience and I'm sure they know how to handle that!
Joe
· 4 months ago
Yep it's the DDoS! not just Twitter...
I got the inside story :)
@JoeHobot
Laterdayz173
· 4 months ago
Noooooo, this is huge news...normally I would twitter this but ummm...ya
pasakorn
· 4 months ago
"No social media" day? HELP!
@tourpro
· 4 months ago
China, Iran, Venezuela
Jonamerica
· 4 months ago
I wonder if Facebook is behind the attack. :p
Joe
· 4 months ago
Yep it's the DDoS! not just Twitter...
I got the inside story :)
@JoeHobot
The Marketing Intern
· 4 months ago
11:16 AM EDT: Twitter still down here. Error message: "The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading."
Seriously, why do people do this?
omg teh haXX0rz!!!11one!!eleven
musttweet
· 4 months ago
facebook down too. I wonder if the facebook link to twitter is is a security hole?
timwhitlock
· 4 months ago
I guess I can't "sign in with Twitter" to comment then.
Seriously though - as we rely more and more on fewer, larger services this kind of thing is a real danger. The internet was brilliantly designed to be decentralized, and now we're seeing a reversal of that due the small number of huge, ubiquitous brands.
Marco Carag
· 4 months ago
Or...*do* let your brand grow big, but design it with a more distributed infrastructure. These attacks will continue to happen occasionally -- but I don't think there's an urgency for people to maintain dozens of different accounts just for redundancy's sake.
ericabiz
· 4 months ago
Uh, anyone can run their own OpenID server. This is a non-issue.
Really, that's the ONLY site that's working? Because this site that I'm reading that comment on is working, google is working, digg is working. You fail at spamming.
Jamie Potter
· 4 months ago
Wonder how many Twitterers who took part in the DDoS attack on Iranian govt websites will feel about being the victim this time?
(I'm not saying that as support of the Iranian regime, far from it, just pointing out the moral question of taking part in such actions)
webthreads
· 4 months ago
Has it crossed anyone's mind that this could be a case of tit-for-tat?
rousso
· 4 months ago
Isn't it a drag to desperately want to re-tweet something and being unable too??? :-p
Guest
· 4 months ago
is it a sort of warfare to make a social media melt-down. Twitter is still down but interestingly a few minutes ago, I got a connection to the website !!!! Blogging about this also http://alomoris.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/twitte...
Ricardo M.
· 4 months ago
I need to tweet this!!
AssassinGrl
· 4 months ago
Thank god it's just a DDoS attack. I thought I broke it when I announced that I was gonna get laid.
Cristian
· 4 months ago
LoL ?! Imagine now about 10 people beeing able to tweet? What would be the trendings?
Maybe one of that trends would be #getlaid
hahahaha
Judy Rey Wasserman
· 4 months ago
Is it a coincidence that this attack on Twitter comes when Iran Protesters, who us Twitter as a lifeline, were protesting the inauguration of falsely elected so called President Ahmadinejad? The time coincides perfectly with a great peaceful protest push. No doubt we will see videos late on You Tube and discover more news about both the protests in Iran and attack on Twitter as the day continues. On Twitter, as @judyrey, during attacks, worms, and news, I frequently send followers to mashable.com. Thanks for the ever updating and informative help regarding our social media sites! Judy Rey Wasserman
Jorge
· 4 months ago
Clearly my morning is quiet without twitter. The attacker is probably using other IP addresses so we'll never know who it is. What I wonder is how much more traffic does friendfeed get when twitter is down. At least it's a way to keep connected.
Brent
· 4 months ago
Now the barrage as made FriendFeed Search unavailable. The collective "We" are now the DDOS attackers to the remaining social media "hub" sites.
Dave 2.0
· 4 months ago
Yay... twitter is back up - still recovering from DDoS though
schmeeeb
· 4 months ago
betcha it's that "President" A--h--- and his goons in Iran.
Anon
· 4 months ago
So rumor has it that the DDoS on Twitter, LiveJournal, and Facebook is coming from Iran! I guess to try and stop people/protesters from using these websites to communicate? Would make sense if true!
Gavin S.
· 4 months ago
Chalk it up to naivete, but, hard as I try, I fail to understand a hacker's motivation. Is it simply to wreak havoc or are they trying to make a point? And if they are trying to make a point, why not do so in a more constructive way?
Or perhaps it is more sinister than that?
Thoughts?
@hill79
· 4 months ago
Historically it was done for bragging rights, you hack a high profile target and you gain notoriety with your peers. Obviously there were always the people who did it for political reasons or for their own, slightly odd-ball reasons (see Gary Mckinnon hacking NASA looking for Aliens) but the political motivation seems all the more common these days.
If the outage coincides with things going on in Iran, there's your answer, someone trying to prevent use of one of the only avenues of free speech Iranians have.
downrightnow
· 4 months ago
downrightnow is a service that launched recently to monitor service disruptions at popular web services, including Twitter. The site automatically posts updates about outages and service trouble and we’ve been on top of this morning’s outages — feel free to stop by for updates or to report any other issues.
I feel like it's going to look like I was paid to say this, but very cool! Why isn't WordPress under blog statuses, though?
asdf
· 4 months ago
4chan did it
Gus
· 4 months ago
While it was down, you could still read people's "panic tweets" here: http://bit.ly/lA7HK
Lisa McGauley
· 4 months ago
Social media terrorists. I knew it!
Ryan
· 4 months ago
Anyone notice one of the top bookmarks on delicious right now is the Twitter status page? That's not really surprising in itself, but what is are the tags one of the users used (http://delicious.com/b0ttle). Not sure if the fact they've tagged 4chan with similar tags is a clue as to the source or I'm reading too much into it.
ajpalmer
· 4 months ago
I'm on TWITTER!!! Woohooo!
tom
· 4 months ago
really? web or api?
ajpalmer
· 4 months ago
web, but it is uber sloooow
ajpalmer
· 4 months ago
or so I thought... :( #whattheheck
Jake Matthews
· 4 months ago
SOS, SOS, SOS (please RT)
martani_net
· 4 months ago
doubt how can someone alone do that? it must be organized for sure! but I think twitter is supposed to have a good way dealing with those attacks, why we never see facebook down, or google or other services?? twitter is an amateur :D and that makes Google chance to own it very high
acydlord
· 4 months ago
Except for the little fact that facebook has been down all morning likely due to the same DDoS attack. I wouldn't want google to even attempt to buy twitter; when google bought jaiku they ruined it.
What will we do without Twitter? Good thing Mashable is still working.:-) Thank you for the article at first I thought it was just my good ole pc acting up again. http://gojawar.com/
JaWar
· 4 months ago
What will we do without Twitter? Good thing Mashable is still working.:-) Thank you for the article at first I thought it was just my good ole pc acting up again. http://gojawar.com/
martani_net
· 4 months ago
That's a googd reason for Google to buy twitter :) few days from now we will be able to signin to twitter with Google accounts :D
shortformblog
· 4 months ago
Facebook is very slow too, we've noticed. Seems like a social-networking attack on a large scale.
grilled hot dogs
· 4 months ago
Oh no! Twitter down! End of the world! Sign of more serious issues! Facebook vs Twitter! Iran! Get a life.
janvdr
· 4 months ago
grilled hot dogs isn't it funny how people freak out? Iran, Chavez and all the other mainstream mediashit prophecies?? I'm getting out, having some sun and a coffee(deicted to you). Thanks god there are still some grilled hot dogs out there
Darren
· 4 months ago
Pete you're getting confused, one minute you say it's a DoS then a DDoS?
Twitter themselves said it was a DoS, but I can't imagine that just one person would be behind it...
wiphey
· 4 months ago
Thanks for the update. I was almost positive it was my ISP having a meltdown of its own.
Hugo Aguilar
· 4 months ago
Maybe it was Hugo Chavez From Venezuela. citizens have been using the hashtag #freemediave after chavez closed down more than 32 private radio station for no apparent reason. #freemediave have been making a lot of noise worldwide.... Who knows! I miss Twitter though... Come on!
phaoloo
· 4 months ago
Typing and tweet but don't see my tweet go, trying to visit Twitter homepage but useless. Don't know why do they DDoS Twitter?
Solve Marketing
· 4 months ago
Thank you Mashable for existing so that I'd know the most reputable place to find out what was going on.
Hugo Aguilar
· 4 months ago
Maybe it was Hugo Chavez From Venezuela. citizens have been using the hashtag #freemediave after chavez closed down more than 32 private radio station for no apparent reason. #freemediave have been making a lot of noise worldwide.... Who knows! I miss Twitter though... Come on!
H0llywoodWh0re
· 4 months ago
Twitter's current Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is breaking news on many mainstream media outlets such as Fox News.
Norgs
· 4 months ago
Wonder what percentage of trustable BGP hosts are in Iran? Maybe I should post that with #conspiracy
Jeremy
· 4 months ago
Can Bill Clinton safe twitter?
Juan Carlos
· 4 months ago
I'm pretty sure that Chávez is being the attack, with his russian hackers friends.
Juan Carlos
· 4 months ago
I'm pretty sure that Chávez is behind the attack, with his russian hackers friends.
janvdr
· 4 months ago
It's probably a measure to save America from the swine flu. Come on, get out , get SOME sun and therefore some Vitamin D into your body, and it will help you to survive the coming Swine Flu and the also coming compulsory vaccines.
And leave Twitter alone for God's sake ... just for a few hours .... they've got enough traffic right now.
janvdr
· 4 months ago
It's probably a measure to save America from the swine flu. Come on, get out , get SOME sun and therefore some Vitamin D into your body, and it will help you to survive the coming Swine Flu and the also coming compulsory vaccines.
And leave Twitter alone for God's sake ... just for a few hours .... they've got enough traffic right now.
janvdr
· 4 months ago
It's probably a measure to save America from the swine flu. Come on, get out , get SOME sun and therefore some Vitamin D into your body, and it will help you to survive the coming Swine Flu and the also coming compulsory vaccines.
And leave Twitter alone for God's sake ... just for a few hours .... they've got enough traffic right now.
janvdr
· 4 months ago
It's probably a measure to save America from the swine flu. Come on, get out , get SOME sun and therefore some Vitamin D into your body, and it will help you to survive the coming Swine Flu and the also coming compulsory vaccines.
And leave Twitter alone for God's sake ... just for a few hours .... they've got enough traffic right now.
Anonymous
· 4 months ago
The individual known as the author of the "Mikeyy" worm that spread across twitter some months ago may be the one that is facilitating this newest attack - Mikeyy Mooney.
Carole Guevin
· 4 months ago
I'm located in Montreal and Twitter is still down - for a moment got the feed but couldn't post - now out for good again. On their blog page message has reverted to 'site is down'.
janvdr
· 4 months ago
I appologize for my quintuplicated comments, but i didnt get acknowledge from Mashable Comments tool. Sorry
Damilola Daramola
· 4 months ago
Now it's back
Gus Snarp
· 4 months ago
Glad I finally found this story, I thought IT at work was trying to block twitter. The Iran theory is interesting, but I think they would have done it sooner if they were going to.
Jeremy
· 4 months ago
Somebody call Bill Clinton Twitter needs help!
Toby
· 4 months ago
Think i can cope without Twitter for a few hours... lol.
An attack though... hmmm... Is this the future of modern warfare - Online wars?
Mohammad B. Irshid
· 4 months ago
And it's not working till now :( OMG! how twitter is a life demand.
Mohammad B. Irshid
· 4 months ago
And it's not working till now :( OMG! how twitter is a life demand.
Donagh Mc Sweeney
· 4 months ago
With Twitter down/dead it's time to go back to the old reliable that is RSS!
Carole Guevin
· 4 months ago
Maybe you want to retweet link to Wired article about DDoS? http://twurl.cc/1e66
Donagh Mc Sweeney
· 4 months ago
It's back up, but verrrryyyy slow!
kdmask
· 4 months ago
I still can't get on twitter, tweet deck is moving but very slow and no new updates lately. FB, still can't comment. Wordpress: Slow, can't update. World..end? EEEEE!
KitLane
· 4 months ago
So, while you're all here, Im sure you'd like to know what Im making for dinner...lol
I wonder if it's all related or just a coincidence? Is the Internet having a nervous breakdown?
jonmadison
· 4 months ago
so tired of this "knoyce" spam. go away with your fake social network
josh
· 4 months ago
i blame the NFL... its traing camp time and they needed to make sure the players weren't dropping all of eli manning's 97 million dollar play book... that or iran finally googled how to pull a DOS attack and succeeded...
Aleks Bochniak
· 4 months ago
....wasn't me!!
Ian
· 4 months ago
Not sure how or why there have been almost 500 retweets if twitter is down. Madness!!!
RawDentures
· 4 months ago
So DDoS being easy to implement, the next piece of meat we eye from here. Shihehehet how on earth is twitter down.......? For two hours, dayum......two HOURS. Lawd help us shiet!!!
Brian
· 4 months ago
It's like the movie "Live free or die hard" is become a reality!
MeMeMe1
· 4 months ago
Reports: Stephen Fry seen wandering aimlessly around London earlier today.
VDOVault
· 4 months ago
Stephen Fry better stay out of elevators today...if he gets stuck, how will we ever get him out without reliable Twitter service? ;-)
Brad F.
· 4 months ago
I blame Iran and North Korea.
Sam the Bright
· 4 months ago
All is good on twitter but it seem kinda dead at moment... I feel so funny right now. ehhh
jamiecroft
· 4 months ago
looks like its still down :(
mcmost1
· 4 months ago
I think someone should question the Archbishop of Canterbury about this, seems to me we have some potential illuminati goin' on here http://bit.ly/vnSGn
Chris @ Rizzo Tees
· 4 months ago
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to Tweet free; The wretched refuse of your teeming servers, Send these, the Tweetless, Denial-of-Service-tossed to me I lift my netbook beside the golden firewall!
Cristian
· 4 months ago
Twitter trending topics after DDoS:
DDoS ,#tls09 , Denial-of-Service , At&t, Steven Tyler , Goodmorning , Bill Hybels , UberTwitter , iPhone , Hiroshima
I can only access Twitter through searching for the site on Yahoo.
Bigot
· 4 months ago
JEWS DID 08/06/09!
Cristian
· 4 months ago
Twitter trending topics after DDoS:
DDoS ,#tls09 , Denial-of-Service , At&t, Steven Tyler , Goodmorning , Bill Hybels , UberTwitter , iPhone , Hiroshima
Click the picture for proof at: otd.to/admin/weblog/twitter-trending-topics
The power of lynx :)
Bryan
· 4 months ago
Still pretty wonky for me... barely working and getting page load error msgs.
Cristian
· 4 months ago
That`s because windows, mac os or/and any other O/S (browsers) would not get at the level of efficiency as the unix/linux do..
ethug
· 4 months ago
trending topics wont show up... guessing search is down... but the rest seems to be working for me... guess i wont see why steven tyler was a TT... ohh well
mrboilermaker
· 4 months ago
all this lost traffic is hurting my adsense - I actually had one click-thru today, imagine how many more I would have had if these sites hadn't gone down - I am guessing at least 2
heather brooks
· 4 months ago
Just saw you on cnn Adam. Great job!
Jason
· 4 months ago
wow, i knew it was gunna happen, just never, well, nevermind, jk, i knew it was gunna happen, just didn't know when, wow!
bhartzer
· 4 months ago
Kind of getting used to it, actually, Twiter used to time out all the time. I'm not surprised, though, with site as popular at Twitter it was bound to happen at some point.
#DDoS Twitter is being sued for patent infringement. http://tinyurl.com/lq6qff Wonder if the plaintiff and anything to do with it.
JenHarris
· 4 months ago
FriendFeed conspiracy? :) -jen @jenharris09
JenHarris
· 4 months ago
FriendFeed conspiracy? :) -jen @jenharris09
Yas
· 4 months ago
No, it's not back 1:28 PM Eastern time. First I couldn't even open my Twitter page. Then I couln'd post (the little circle kept whizzing around), and now again, I can't log in. WTF!
britard
· 4 months ago
its google and facebook... facebook with sporatic downtime to cover up.
RICHARD NORMOUS
· 4 months ago
YOU GOOF BALLS, SERVES YOU RIGHT. TWITTER THIS
DH
· 4 months ago
Just great... Now I have to work.
STEVE FROM YELLOWSTONE
· 4 months ago
MY PRIUS STOPPED RUNNING AT THE SAME TIME. I AM GREEN AND AM VERY CONCRNED OVER TWITTER. I CANT EVEN DO A DOODIE WITHOUT POSTING WHAT IT SMELLS LIKE ON TWITTER. FRANKUS OR UNCLE PAUL, HELP ME.
HUGH MEMBER
· 4 months ago
NICE ONE LIL JIMMY HAPPY BIRFDAY
HUGH MEMBER
· 4 months ago
AS LONG AS I CAN STILL GET A HOOKER OFF OFCRAIGSLIST, LIFE IS GOOD!
Camilo
· 4 months ago
Twitter gets shut down, facebook has been fuckin up, youtube needs an upgrade already, paltalk is dumb old, wordpress & blogger doesnt have anything interesting...But u kno what AroundTheWway got u. An upgrade of all of these all in one with no glitches...How can u go wrong?? http://aroundtheway.com
Terrace Crawford
· 4 months ago
Hackers really need mental help. Seriously. ... and I need help for my twitter addiction.
In and amongst all of this sits the good ol' reliable telephone. Gee, what a concept..
Chris
· 4 months ago
Lost without twitter? Please, get a friggin life.
Dave Lucas
· 4 months ago
Honestly, with the sheer volume of traffic going through twitter's servers at any given millimoment, it's a miracle they're able to keep the service up and running as well as they do!
Dave Lucas
· 4 months ago
Honestly, with the sheer volume of traffic going through twitter's servers at any given millimoment, it's a miracle they're able to keep the service up and running as well as they do!
Droogs
· 4 months ago
I was so happy to see all these go down today. Tis a great time on the net to see these pieces of shit sites come crashing down.
chrystalk
· 4 months ago
That's weird and I don't completely understand it.
DPencilPusher
· 4 months ago
If the site is down, then how are people retweeting this? and how come it appears in trending topics? can some people tweet? I can't =(
All Comments
http://www.twitterskins.co.uk/2009/08/twitter-d...
I'm at http://identi.ca/tdobson anyway and the jabber integration and API is working fine.
It's FOSS, with ajax interface, better design, twitter and jabber integration and API is working fine.
*so* totally not back up!
I got the inside story :)
@JoeHobot
I got the inside story :)
@JoeHobot
Seriously, why do people do this?
omg teh haXX0rz!!!11one!!eleven
Seriously though - as we rely more and more on fewer, larger services this kind of thing is a real danger. The internet was brilliantly designed to be decentralized, and now we're seeing a reversal of that due the small number of huge, ubiquitous brands.
(I'm not saying that as support of the Iranian regime, far from it, just pointing out the moral question of taking part in such actions)
Imagine now about 10 people beeing able to tweet? What would be the trendings?
Maybe one of that trends would be #getlaid
hahahaha
No doubt we will see videos late on You Tube and discover more news about both the protests in Iran and attack on Twitter as the day continues.
On Twitter, as @judyrey, during attacks, worms, and news, I frequently send followers to mashable.com. Thanks for the ever updating and informative help regarding our social media sites!
Judy Rey Wasserman
Or perhaps it is more sinister than that?
Thoughts?
If the outage coincides with things going on in Iran, there's your answer, someone trying to prevent use of one of the only avenues of free speech Iranians have.
http://downrightnow.com/twitter
Twitter themselves said it was a DoS, but I can't imagine that just one person would be behind it...
And leave Twitter alone for God's sake ... just for a few hours .... they've got enough traffic right now.
And leave Twitter alone for God's sake ... just for a few hours .... they've got enough traffic right now.
And leave Twitter alone for God's sake ... just for a few hours .... they've got enough traffic right now.
And leave Twitter alone for God's sake ... just for a few hours .... they've got enough traffic right now.
An attack though... hmmm... Is this the future of modern warfare - Online wars?
World..end?
EEEEE!
I wonder if it's all related or just a coincidence? Is the Internet having a nervous breakdown?
go away with your fake social network
Your huddled masses yearning to Tweet free;
The wretched refuse of your teeming servers,
Send these, the Tweetless,
Denial-of-Service-tossed to me
I lift my netbook beside the golden firewall!
DDoS ,#tls09 , Denial-of-Service , At&t, Steven Tyler , Goodmorning , Bill Hybels , UberTwitter , iPhone , Hiroshima
Click the picture for proof: http://www.otd.to/admin/weblog/twitter-trending...
The power of lynx :)
DDoS ,#tls09 , Denial-of-Service , At&t, Steven Tyler , Goodmorning , Bill Hybels , UberTwitter , iPhone , Hiroshima
Click the picture for proof at: otd.to/admin/weblog/twitter-trending-topics
The power of lynx :)
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-jen
@jenharris09
-jen
@jenharris09
... and I need help for my twitter addiction.
--Terrace Crawford
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