Twitter hit by denial of service attack - Israelis?

[Ognir]

(CNN) -- The popular social networking site Twitter has been hit by a denial of service attack, according to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone.

In an e-mail to CNN.com, Stone said this morning's attack is not related to a recent incident in which a hacker stole internal documents from the site.

"There's no indication that this attack is related to any previous activities. We are currently the target of a denial of service attack," Stone said in the e-mail.

"Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter for intended customers or users. We are defending against this attack now and will continue to update our status blog as we defend and later investigate."

Twitter's site went down around 9:30 a.m. ET on Thursday. A message posted on Twitter's status blog said the site was active again by 11:30 a.m., but that the site remained under attack.

"We are continuing to defend against and recover from this attack," the message says.

The site allows users to post 140-character messages, and many of Twitter's users have complained about feeling disconnected from the news of the day while the site is shut down.

In a blog post, Twitter says it will update the public with more information as it becomes available.

A denial of service attack essentially is an attempt to flood a Web site with so much information that it must shut down

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[Ognir]

Pro-Georgia blogger 'George' target of Twitter attack

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/07/ ... index.html

[rmstock]

Before going operational on a twitter account one first better
takes a course in Self Moderation. So who is following all these
Twitter messages then? I would like to notify here all the Twitter
Bloggers and Posters  of their Miranda rights :

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and
will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right
to have an attorney present during questioning. If you cannot
afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you. Do you
understand these rights?

[scorpio]

What I find strange about this 'event' is that it has been in the news nonstop for 3 days. Why?
Over the last 6 months, Twitter has been in the news alot. Again, why?
What is soooo important about twitter?
So they had some 'computer' problems? Big deal, who doesn't :x
CNN mentions twitter almost every hour. Why?

Scorpio11