Twitter Outage Happening Again: Could be another DDoS Attack

by James on October 27, 2009

Update: Twitter downtime going on 40+ mins. I’ve definitely confirmed that Twitter is down everywhere which is pretty significant. What would be interesting is that this would be less than a week that Twitter Founder Ev Williams said that “Twitter does not (or will not) have scalability issues.” This may be a hacker taking that claim to heart and issuing a DDoS to bring Twitter down.

Twitter seems to be experiencing a massive outage. Obviously the first thought that comes to mind is that Twitter is under attack again. Back in August Twitter was down for a significant period of time due to a DDoS attack. I’m not sure if that’s happening again, but Twitter has been completely down for at least the past 25 mins.

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This isn’t even producing the notorious fail whale, Twitter doesn’t seem to be responding at all, as if someone completely turned the lights out.

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