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Twitter down & unavailable due to DDOS attack.

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6 August 2009 One Comment

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It’s not BlackBerry.com or anything going down, but we all know how well Twitter users and BlackBerry devices go hand and hand.  Currently Twitter is experiencing lots of issues, as far as loading and communicating properly due to a DDOS attack.  BerryReview posted a very informative image, giving you the broad picture of what a DDOS attack does exactly and how it works.

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Here you can see that there is a main source attacker which then routes to several handlers, and form those handlers, an infinite amount of bots get sent out the “victim” (Twitter in this case).  If you are still experience or not experiencing problems, let us know and drop a line.

-by Mac Jadalhack

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  • http://www.pocketberry.com/2009/08/24/twitter-not-working-for-you/ Twitter not working for you? | PocketBerry: Mobile

    [...] temporarily be suspended to further investigation and a proper solution occurs.  A few weeks ago, Twitter encountered a DDOS attack that took days to recover from.  We do not have any word as to why the service is down [...]