Labels: meta, social networking, twitter
The Twitter site went out of operation at or just before 9:15 a.m. EDT. Service has not resumed as of 11:10 a.m. EDT.
Twitter reports that it was targeted by a denial-of-service attack. Livejournal, Facebook and the Gawker blog family have all been hit by more limited DDoS attacks over the past day.
UPDATE: As of 12:30 p.m., the site is up again. Updates have resumed on DCAbloob's Twitter feed.