twitter down

Twitter is currently experiencing extended downtime: a 30 minute outage that’s one of the longest in recent months. Back in 2007 and 2008, Twitter downtime was relatively frequent. this year the site has been far more stable and its early outages have been largely forgotten.In the last 5 minutes, Twitter has acknowledged the downtime on its status blog, but adds that it’s unsure of the cause:Twitter has been inaccessible this morning, apparentlybecause of a denial of service attack. And Facebook's been either sluggish or unresponsive; for instance, I've had trouble opening my inbox, and many news feed links haven't worked.

So you might as well stop hitting the refresh key over and over and accept the situation for what it is.It's normal to get angry about downtime at a site you use every day, but in this case it might not be a bad thing. The world won't end while Twitter and Facebook right themselves; why not take this opportunity to catch up on some chore you usually postpone in favor of updating your status or reading other people's updates at these sites? Why not try to remember what you used to do with your time before these sites made their way onto your bookmarks list? Twitter has been down for several hours following a denial-of-service attack on the site. The company announced the problem on its status blog, initially saying that it was trying to determine the cause, before confirming the DDOS attack.

At the time of writing, the site is back up for some but running very slowly. Antivirus company Sophos explains what a DDOS is: A denial of service attack occurs when computers bombard a website with requests for information .Typically hackers can control thousands of innocent users' computers centrally and command them to visit a site that they wish to flood with traffic - making it impossible for other internet users to get through. It's a bit like 15 fat men trying to get through a revolving door at the same time nothing can move . Shortly was hours ago. Which in Twitter time is years.

To heal the pain temporarily, I've come up with a few ideas on what to do while the Twitter gurus fix what's ailing the site There is now a deafening silence in the tweeting world. News organizations will no longer be able to use the tweets of celebraties, or politically incorrect tweets of politicians, to promote laughter and outrage... at least for now.I wonder how many celebrities or politicians had planned to make an annouce.tweet today . They should take this as a sign. You probably want to rethink that.