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Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing

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Re: Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing

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Post by larrywright »

jgrahamc wrote: post #21

Twitter says that they are dealing with a DDoS attack. See http://status.twitter.com/

It looks like it's actually Twitter, Facebook, and LiveJournal: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/06/serious-twitter-outage-...

Somebody doesn't like social networks it seems :/

Re: Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing

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Post by mixmax »

nick-dap wrote: post #18

"these outages are much more serious. 45 million people worldwide now rely on Twitter as a communication platform" Riiiight. Rely is a very strong word. How will we do business?! How will we talk to our friends and relatives?! Let's face it, Twitter solved a problem that never existed.

That's how new markets are born.

Back in the day e-mail solved a problem that didn't exist too.

Re: Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing

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Post by ratsbane »

mbenjaminsmith wrote: post #13

My site's down since about 5 minutes ago. It's on App Engine... Maybe this is more widespread than Twitter? Global cyberattack?

Two people have called me in the last few minutes to ask if I'm having internet problems - on in Nashville on AT&T and the other in Memphis - not sure what carrier.

My Comcast connection just went down for about five minutes while I was typing that... but my open ssh connections, one to a server in Nashville, one to one in Fremont at Hurricane Electric, and one to Rackspace in Dallas - still worked.

Re: Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing

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Post by jrockway »

larrywright wrote: post #22
jgrahamc wrote: post #21

Twitter says that they are dealing with a DDoS attack. See http://status.twitter.com/

It looks like it's actually Twitter, Facebook, and LiveJournal: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/06/serious-twitter-outage-... Somebody doesn't like social networks it seems :/

Corporate America is just trying to get some productivity back. Hard economic times, dontchaknow.

Re: Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing

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Post by kevindication »

Stasyan wrote: post #11
rufo wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not if I keep checking it every two minutes to see if it's back up. (I don't have a problem - I can quit any time I want!)

It's very easy to quit, I already quit hundreds of times before

Remember: winners never quit, but quitters never lose.

Re: Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing

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Post by cstefanovici »

Can anyone comment on whether the issues with Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal are related? Nobody seems to be saying it, but it doesn't seem to be a coincidence? I know Twitter has had downtime before but this is of long duration, early in the morning and coinciding with issues with the other sites. Is this an anti-socialnetworking hacker attack???
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