Denial symptoms
Microblogging site Twitter was the victim of a denial of service attack at around 3pm today, which took the site down.
At time of writing, Twitter had updated its status to say that it was back up again, but still battling the DoS beast. Our Tweetdeck has started updating again, after a pause of around an hour, but we couldn't access the Twitter website last time we tried.
This piece of cyber-terrorism comes soon after Twitter founder Ev Williams revealed that London is the Capital of Twitter in an interview on BBC2's Newsnight.
The big question, however, is what were the knock-on effects of this microblogging suffocation? We still have basic amenities like water and electricity here at HEXUS, but perhaps we're just the lucky ones. We'd like to hear from anyone stranded by the Twitter outage and what measures they had to take to overcome it.
