DDoS

Twitter Coming Back Online After Denial-of-Service Attack

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 6, 2009 - 6:56am.
San Francisco - The Twitter microblogging service has not been accessible on Thursday, due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. "We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly," the company wrote in a blog post at 8 a.m. PDT.