Twitter Outage Continues…
Posted by the dood on Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Twitter, the latest internet microblogging Phenom, continues its problems this morning with outages from a denial of service attack which has kept the website out of comission on and off since 6am Pacific Time.
As many have said before me.. if Twitter intends to continue to be a big player in this game, they will need to be able to protect themselves from DoS attacks as well as handle their userbase of 45 million users. Even prior to the DoS attacks, Twitter has had problems with scaling their software to handle the enormous surge in usage that the site has seen.