Twitter Brought Down by to DDOS Attack

Twitter has been brought down this morning as the result of a DDoS attack. The site has been down for the better part of the last three hours here on the east coast, but is starting to show some signs of life now.

Meanwhile, Twitter revealed that it's defending itself from a Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS), where the target is usually hit with a ton of fake access requests, causing the site in question to go down.

Looks like Twitter is off the hook on this one...not their fault. It's incredibly difficult to defend against a DDoS attack, even for large, well-known websites.

Stay tuned, they should hopefully have things back to normal shortly.

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