Post by Saknika on Aug 6, 2009 11:37:56 GMT -5
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Personally, its driving me nuts too. I also get a lot of my news updates via Twitter, because it's just easier to specify that way. And I also keep up with where my friends are, so that's really annoying. However, you can apparently still text to Twitter, since that's working fine for me.
A hacker attack Thursday shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter, and Facebook also said it was looking into possible site problems.
Twitter said in its status blog Thursday that it was "defending against a denial-of-service attack," in which hackers command scores of computers to a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from getting through.
For Twitter users, the outage meant no tweeting about lunch plans, the weather or the fact that Twitter is down.
Twitter said in its status blog Thursday that it was "defending against a denial-of-service attack," in which hackers command scores of computers to a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from getting through.
For Twitter users, the outage meant no tweeting about lunch plans, the weather or the fact that Twitter is down.
Personally, its driving me nuts too. I also get a lot of my news updates via Twitter, because it's just easier to specify that way. And I also keep up with where my friends are, so that's really annoying. However, you can apparently still text to Twitter, since that's working fine for me.
