Twitter is down and might be taking facebook down with it
Twitter has been down since about 9:14 AM (EDT) this morning. The site running Apache on Linux and hosted by Verio also makes use of Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Pingdom which tracks uptime for its clients reports about 55 minutes of downtime in August so far.
Twitter’s status site merely states:
Site is down 19 minutes ago
We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly.
Of course when the 25 million or so people who log in to say “hello” to each other find out that Twitter is down, they immediately go to facebook to ask “What’s up with Twitter? Is it down?”
Apparently they have crashed facebook as well. Or it is the heavy integration between all of these social platforms.
Stay tuned for updates….
Tags: Attack, crashed, Denial of Service, DOS, down, facebook, outage, social, twitter
6. August 2009 at 12:07 pm :
Update - Twitter says that outage is a denial-of-service attack.
6. August 2009 at 1:04 pm :
So it’s the Domino Effect all over again? I know Twitter needs to go to a 64 bit platform. This may be it.
7. August 2009 at 2:42 pm :
Update - Twitter is Restoring API and SMS
ref: Due to defensive measures we’ve taken against the ongoing denial-of-service attack, some Twitter clients are unable to communicate with our API, and many users are unable to tweet via SMS.
We are working as quickly as possible to restore our full service.