Hey, for those who have not heard…Twitter is being attacked once again. Today on several occasions, Twitter was unavailable to its users. This morning there were many attempts, by yours truly to access my account only to be denied. When i checked on the status of Twitter, their site said that they were under attack and were defending themselves from a denial-of-service-attack. If you ever have problems with Twitter and need to check on the status of their service…here is where you go: http://status.twitter.com/ .
For those who are addicted to Twitter either for communication, for social media purposes or for business connections these outages are frustrating. The online traffic is mindboggling and temporary outages due to high traffic times are expected…but when the site is actually under attack…that is different. People get nervous about their private information being taken. Those who monitor such things have to really step up their defenses…and, there should be high consequences legally for those who are found to be behind such criminal behavior.
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You are correct AGAIN, Rainy!
WOE. Even CNN is vexed that Twitter has the hiccups! This just makes a major statement about our culture, does it not? Here we were a year ago, grumbling that we had no time for Twitter, resisting involvement in it, and today our lives are askew because Twitter is out of service! Social media has got it ALL going on and when it goes down, it’s reminiscent of losing electrical power during a storm!
I guess you won’t need to watch for my Tweets today…
Hugs,
Connie
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