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Thursday, August 06, 2009
Silencio

One of the reasons for the waning of this blog is that Twitter and Facebook are much more suited to collecting my trivial everyday thoughts.

But today they are both down at the same time. What are the odds of that? Is someone carrying out a DOS attack on social networking sites? (Myspace seems to still be up, but who still uses that?) Is the world coming to an end resulting in thousands of users Tweeting about it at once? Or has my ISP messed up somehow?

Update: Well, it's not my ISP, since the Twitter status blog confirms that it's down. Facebook came back up for a minute, but seems to be knackered again. Overrun by refugees from Twitter, perhaps?

Update 2: Confirmed to be a Denial Of Service attack on Twitter.

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