Twitter down

[Chippiewill]

It's down :O

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.twitter.com

[efq]

There was stupid bots getting 'Twitter Purge' a TT and stuff earlier.

[Jack!]

seems ok now?

im on twitter at the moment?

[Misawa]

It's still down for me, as is TwitterFox.

[Markeh]

Can't get on using Twitter.com or Twitterific. Error comes up on Twitterific, and IE Cannot Display This Page on the computer.

[Flisker]

http://status.twitter.com/post/157160617/site-is-down

[Chippiewill]

http://status.twitter.com/

More details :P

[Misawa]

Would anyone like to shed some light on what a "denial of service" attack is?

[Nli.]

"
A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of the concerted efforts of a person or persons to prevent an Internet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet) site (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website) or service (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_service) from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely. Perpetrators of DoS attacks typically target sites or services hosted on high-profile web servers such as banks, credit card payment gateways, and even root nameservers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_nameserver)."

- wikipedia.org

[Misawa]

Thanks.

I don't know what hackers and all that get out of disrupting services.

[WizingWiz]

Oh Noesss :D

Awhhh

Wiz

Edited by Robbie! (Forum Super Moderator): Please do not make pointless or unconstructive posts

[Jordy]

Thanks.

I don't know what hackers and all that get out of disrupting services.Nothing the majority of the time, there's rarely any advantage to them, it's a pretty evil thing to do and as you can see, there's not much which can be done to stop them.

[Misawa]

Nothing the majority of the time, there's rarely any advantage to them, it's a pretty evil thing to do and as you can see, there's not much which can be done to stop them.

So they just get off on other people's misery.

[Nli.]

Thanks.

I don't know what hackers and all that get out of disrupting services.

I guess they get a feel of power. For example when people create Habbo Retro Servers, they probably feel powerful because they can do what they want. Obviously, different circumstances to a retro, but they probably feel good knowing they have disrupted peoples days somehow.

[efq]

God, I can't live without twitterrr lol.

haha it made sky news breaking news: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Technology/Twitter-Microblogging-Site-Down-After-Malicious-Cyber-Attack/Article/200908115355783?lpos=Technology_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15355783_Twitter%3A_Microblogging_Site _Down_After_Malicious_Cyber-Attack

[Recursion]

And the BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8188201.stm

[Misawa]

It came back for five minutes and now it's down again. God damn nerds.

[GoldenMerc]

surely they should have DDoS protection, i mean yes its hard to find but theres loads of ways to protect and stop a DDoS attack.

[HotelUser]

Well I'm able to access Twitter now:P.

[iDenning]

lol whats so good about twitter, it even makes breaking news. How pathetic.

[Recursion]

surely they should have DDoS protection, i mean yes its hard to find but theres loads of ways to protect and stop a DDoS attack.

Even the best of DDoS protection wouldn't stop some.