Täiesti hirmus, ma oleks eile peaaegu, et kiirabi kutsunud kui Twitter pikaks ajaks pillid kotti pani ja maailma jaoks kättesaamatuks jäi. Tekkisid esimesed külmavärinad ja võõrutusnähud. Õnneks tuli ta varsti tagasi ja ravile minema ei pidanud. Mikroblogardid üle galaktika elavad jälle kaks aastat vähem. Isegi Twitteri Fail Whale oli kadunud.
 
Reaalselt said Twitteri serverid aga räigelt peksa ühe korraliku DoS rünnaku käigus. Why? Oh, Why?
 
Edit: Põhjuseid valgustab The Empire Chronicles vahendusel Sten Hankewitz (tänusõnad kuuluvad Punasele Hanrahanile, viite eest):

It was probably Russian hackers who brought down Twitter yesterday and also attacked Google and Facebook, all that effort in order to try to silence a pro-Georgian blogger.

A year after Russia brutally attacked Georgia, the co-ordinated cyber assaults shut down down Twitter for a couple of hours and disrupted access for Facebook users.

LiveJournal, a blogging site, was also hit while Google managed to fend off denial of service attacks, The Times reports. The hacking technique uses thousands of compromised computers to contact a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from getting through.

A Georgian blogger by the name of Cyxymu has accounts on all the websites and was the target, according to Max Kelly, the chief security officer at Facebook.

“It was a simultaneous attack across a number of properties targeting him to keep his voice from being heard,” Kelly said. ”We’re actively investigating the source of the attacks and we hope to be able to find out the individuals involved in the back end and to take action against them if we can.”