Ben Werdmuller·Aug 6, 2009 Twitter DoS and single points of failure
Twitter went down today at the hand of a denial of service attack (alongside Facebook and Livejournal; the latter has also reported an attack). In the old days, you’d shrug it off and go and look at something else. Today, Twitter is such an integral part of the landscape, and some people’s businesses, that it made BBC News and was commented on all over the Internet.
The headlines are highly strung to say the least:
* Twitter Attack Brings a Day Without Social Media (Gawker)
* A Day (Or Hour)Data control·Software development