Twitter Offline Due To DDoS

The elusive Precision dropped a submission in my lap about a DDoS taking down Twitter running on CNet. It's been down for several hours, no doubt wreaking havoc on the latest hawtness in social networking. Won't someone please think of the tweeters? Word is that both Facebook & LiveJournal have been having problems this AM as well.

Confirmed by Twitter

[ScotlynHatt]

http://status.twitter.com/post/157160617/site-is-down [twitter.com]

Status page confirms its a DDOS

[Anonymous Coward]

http://status.twitter.com/

Re:And nothing of value was lost

[betterunixthanunix]

Actually, just the fact that Twitter is a centralized service makes it easier to block. If I were looking for a channel that was "unblockable," the first thing I would look at is P2P networking, followed by Usenet, followed by email. Only if all else failed would I start looking at the Web or SMS.

Give me a break

[Anonymous Coward]

Practically every news source is reporting it on their front page. Including BBC, MSNBC, Reuters, CNN, etc...

But continue on dorkmeister.

Re:I Only Use Slashdot Anyway

[Jesse_vd]

9:18 PST and it is down for me in B.C.

Re:And nothing of value was lost

[tdobson]

Indeed twitter's centralised service is what makes it such a problem.
Personally I use http://identi.ca/ [identi.ca]

It's based on laconica, is free software and is federated. eg. http://army.twit.tv/ [army.twit.tv]

I'm at http://identi.ca/tdobson [identi.ca] and this downtime is not causing me any problems! :)