yesterday Twitter experienced the longest downtime in history, The site went down on the Thursday morning leaving millions of Twitterers frustrated and facing problems using twitter.
twitter engineers team was not sure about the problem as it posted on the twitter status blog:
Site is down, we are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly.
Upon further investigation, it was finally declared that the server went down because of a denial-of-service attack as posted on the twitter blog:
On this otherwise happy Thursday morning, Twitter is the target of a denial of service attack.
The Twitter engineers team is working on the problem as said by the Twitter blog:
We are defending against this attack now and will continue to update our status blog as we continue to defend and later investigate.
Though Twitter is back but users are experiencing unusual delays and time-outs. Highlighting the matter, the twitter status blog says:
As we recover, users will experience some longer load times and slowness. This includes timeouts to API clients. We’re working to get back to 100% as quickly as we can.
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