Twitter Goes Down – Denial of Service Attack!

Aug 6, 2009 by Abbas

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Twitter went down for about 2 hours today due to a large scale Denial of Service Attack. The services resumed to normal but the attack does not seem to stop as the Twitter Status blog reports that the service is still defending itself against the attack.

US government sites have witnessed a similar attack during the last month, however, holding an individual or a group responsible is not easy because of the nature of DoS of DDoS attacks.

Twitter has always had issues with scaling the service purely because of the pace it is growing with and such attacks underlines the importance to have better infrastructure for services like Twitter who are experiencing phenomenal growth.

Twitter is not the only service that is attacked, Facebook also reported slowdown of its services due to the attack but has managed to defend itself to keep its services from going down completely.

While some say “Who cares” if these services functional or not, 45 Million Twitter users worldwide are certainly waiting for it to be back in action.

So if someone is jumping of the roof or shooting fake videos to enjoy Twitter limelight, wait up! Now is not a good time.