Twitter down

[Chippiewill]

It's down

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

[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 site or 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."

- wikipedia.org

[Misawa]

Thanks.

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