Twitter’s Down: Denial Of Service Attack Strikes Again

failwhale.jpgEarlier this week, a deadly distributed denial of service attack crippled Gawker Media. Today, we’re devastated because Twitter is down, due to a similar attack. We managed to get out one Tweet, and have been seeing intermittent updates from other users, but they are few and far betweeen.

We’ve also heard that Facebook is experiencing problems, too. Has an influx of Twitter users jammed Facebook, or are they facing an attack, too?

Without Twitter and Facebook, how are you finding out what friends are thinking today?

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