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Tracking the social media take down   NEW TOOL

Twitter down and out for a couple of hours.  Facebook packed with error messages. That was last week,  and today it happened again. 

NEW presslym on Twitter has told me about a wonderful way to keep up with what the Twitter hackers are doing to the Twitterverse.  Get email alerts from Twitter’s status page:  Here’s the link.  Just put in your email address and fill in the box with the word they ask for and you’ll find out from Twitter when there are problems.  Twitter says it’s planning maintenance work now for Tuesday night.

Turns out in the first round of attacks, hackers were trying to silence one blogger by taking down four networks!  A Georgian blogger was the target.  Read more here.

Conan made light of Twitter going down last night.  Watch here.

I was on vacation through Wednesday, and didn’t tweet for days… so could my return to the Twitterverse take the whole system down?  Nah.  I tweet a lot, but not THAT much.

Something went terribly wrong August 6th, that knocked out the Twittisphere.  Over an two hours of Tweet-less-ness.  And Facebook was giving all kinds of “transport message errors” when you tried to post.

Track the latest on Twitter’s status here.

First Explanations came from Twitter blaming a denial of service attack.  Facebook also mentioned in the Wall Street Journal.

What is a denial of service attack?  Read more here.

CNN’s SciTechBlog has all the latest about the cyber attack on Twitter: http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/

Even the Washington Post is on the story - another sign of just how mainstream social networking has become.

Reuters reports here.
PC Magazine is following the developments regarding problems with both Twitter and Facebook.

Tech Crunch is following it all closely.

Share your thoughts on the outage in the comments section.

See HOW TO post using your Facebook or Twitter login.  No need to create another login.  The DEMO is here.