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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Mashable - The Social Media Guide - Latest Comments in Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.disqus.com/</link><description>Internet and Technology News - Mashable is the world’s largest blog focused exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Networking news. With more than 5 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific blog reviewing new Web sites and services, publishing breaking news on what’s new on the web.</description><atom:link href="https://mashable.disqus.com/twitter_downtime_is_denial_of_service_attack_ddos/latest.rss" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:26:42 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14419572</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I am sad! I need twitter! Wahhhh!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If anyone wants to stay updated on my blog:&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://fastestfreebies.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://fastestfreebies.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://fastestfreebies.blog...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jesse</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:26:42 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14399758</link><description>&lt;p&gt;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 =(&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">DPencilPusher</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:48:53 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14396688</link><description>&lt;p&gt;That's weird and I don't completely understand it.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">chrystalk</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:13:23 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14377014</link><description>&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Droogs</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:20:32 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14361204</link><description>&lt;p&gt;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!&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Dave Lucas</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:34:43 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14361071</link><description>&lt;p&gt;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!&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Dave Lucas</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:33:35 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14361001</link><description>&lt;p&gt;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!&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Dave Lucas</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:33:02 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14360345</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Lost without twitter?  Please, get a friggin life.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Chris</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:24:17 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14360054</link><description>&lt;p&gt;In and amongst all of this sits the good ol' reliable telephone. Gee, what a concept..&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">vetmanager</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:23:35 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14355233</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure it's Fox &amp;amp; the producers of American Idol trying to spare us from Paula Abdul's tweets (&lt;a href="http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/paula-abdul-twitters-her-exit-from-american-idol/)" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/paula-abdul-twitters-her-exit-from-american-idol/)"&gt;http://www.deadlinehollywoo...&lt;/a&gt; ;-)&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">VDOVault</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:54:56 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14355058</link><description>&lt;p&gt;NICE ONE LIL JIMMY  HAPPY BIRFDAY&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">HUGH MEMBER</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:52:01 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14354961</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Getting some good comments from people on the downtime of Twitter submit yours to &lt;a href="http://www.twitterskins.co.uk/2009/08/twitter-down-oh-no-people-willl-have-to-read-a-book-instead/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.twitterskins.co.uk/2009/08/twitter-down-oh-no-people-willl-have-to-read-a-book-instead/"&gt;http://www.twitterskins.co....&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">twitterskins</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:49:37 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14354951</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Stephen Fry better stay out of elevators today...if he gets stuck, how will we ever get him out without reliable Twitter service? ;-)&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">VDOVault</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:49:14 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14354682</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Hackers really need mental help.  Seriously.&lt;br&gt;... and I need help for my twitter addiction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;--Terrace Crawford&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.terracecrawford.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="www.terracecrawford.com"&gt;www.terracecrawford.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/terracecrawford" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="www.twitter.com/terracecrawford"&gt;www.twitter.com/terracecraw...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Terrace Crawford</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:42:54 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14354647</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Twitter gets shut down, facebook has been fuckin up, youtube needs an upgrade already, paltalk is dumb old, wordpress &amp;amp; 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?? &lt;a href="http://aroundtheway.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://aroundtheway.com"&gt;http://aroundtheway.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Camilo</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:42:18 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14354488</link><description>&lt;p&gt;AS LONG AS I CAN STILL GET A HOOKER OFF OFCRAIGSLIST, LIFE IS GOOD! &lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">HUGH MEMBER</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:38:35 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14354413</link><description>&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">STEVE FROM YELLOWSTONE</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:36:55 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14354279</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Just great...  Now I have to work.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">DH</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:33:42 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14354250</link><description>&lt;p&gt;YOU GOOF BALLS, SERVES YOU RIGHT.  TWITTER THIS&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">RICHARD NORMOUS </dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:33:00 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14354187</link><description>&lt;p&gt;its google and facebook... facebook with sporatic downtime to cover up. &lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">britard</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:31:25 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14353853</link><description>&lt;p&gt;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!&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Yas</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:29:31 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14353804</link><description>&lt;p&gt;FriendFeed conspiracy?  :)&lt;br&gt;-jen&lt;br&gt;@jenharris09&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jen Harris</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:28:15 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14353774</link><description>&lt;p&gt;FriendFeed conspiracy?  :)&lt;br&gt;-jen&lt;br&gt;@jenharris09&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jen Harris</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:27:36 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14353295</link><description>&lt;p&gt;#DDoS Twitter is being sued for patent infringement. &lt;a href="http://tinyurl.com/lq6qff" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://tinyurl.com/lq6qff"&gt;http://tinyurl.com/lq6qff&lt;/a&gt; Wonder if the plaintiff and anything to do with it. &lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Tom Guard</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:16:58 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)</title><link>http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/#comment-14353230</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I guess Twitter will always be on the top.&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.keralatimes.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.keralatimes.com"&gt;Online Malayalam News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Kerala Times</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:15:23 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>