After last week’s outage, Twitter is down briefly because of another attack

August 6th, 2009 Twitter outage clamps tweets, cause 'unknown'NEW YORK — Twitter is down. For users of the short messaging site, this means no tweeting about lunch plans, the weather or the fact that Twitter is down.

August 6th, 2009 Hackers attack Twitter, Facebook also slows downNEW YORK — A hacker attack Thursday shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter, and Facebook also said it was looking into possible site problems. Twitter said in its status blog Thursday that it was "defending against a denial-of-service attack," in which hackers command scores of computers to a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from getting through.

July 8th, 2009 Federal Web sites knocked out by cyber attackWASHINGTON — The Associated Press has learned that a widespread computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of several government agencies, including some that are responsible for fighting cyber crime. Officials say the Treasury Department, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and the Transportation Department's Web sites were all down at varying points over the weekend and into this week.

August 8th, 2009 Attacks on lone blogger reverberate across WebNEW YORK —The outage that knocked Twitter offline for hours was traced to an attack on a lone blogger in the former Soviet republic of Georgia — but the collateral damage that left millions around the world tweetless showed just how much havoc an isolated cyberdispute can cause. "It told us how quickly many people really took Twitter into their hearts," Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University, said Friday.

February 24th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Google Tuesday apologised for an outage that struck possibly millions of users of its email system, Gmail, earlier in the day. 'The Gmail outage that affected many consumers and Google Apps users worldwide is now over.

August 4th, 2009 PayPal outage frustrates merchants, consumersSAN JOSE, Calif. — PayPal suffered periodic breakdowns that crimped Internet sales for more than four hours Monday.

July 27th, 2009 AT&T says Web site block was not censorshipNEW YORK — AT&T Inc. blocked freewheeling Web site 4chan.org this weekend, leading to accusations of censorship, but the reason for the action turned out to be a routine security measure.

August 8th, 2009 LONDON - A blogger who was targeted in a coordinated attack against websites such as Facebook and Twitter has told the BBC that he blames Russia for the assault. According to a report by BBC News, the pro-Georgian blogger, known as Cyxymu, said he had been targeted for "telling the truth about the Russian-Georgian war" in his writings.

May 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Social networking site Twitter suffers security breaches, an expert has warned. According to Graham Cluley of antivirus firm Sophos, the microblogging site is prone to viruses created in the Javascript web-programming language.

August 6th, 2009 NEW YORK — Hackers on Thursday shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter for hours, while Facebook experienced intermittent access problems. Twitter said it suffered a denial-of-service attack, in which hackers command scores of computers toward a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from getting through.

July 27th, 2009 Palin issues final Tweet on state accountFAIRBANKS, Alaska — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has posted her final message on her official Alaska account on the social networking site Twitter.

August 14th, 2009 Hacker used Twitter to control infected PCsSAN JOSE, Calif. — Twitter's been having a rough couple of weeks.

July 21st, 2009 Twitter all-star? Best Buy puts number at 250CHICAGO — After buzz built online about a new marketing job, Best Buy Co. Inc. is reworking the help-wanted listing that sought Twitter experience and put a number on it — 250 followers.

July 8th, 2009 White House among targets of sweeping cyber attackWASHINGTON — The powerful attack that overwhelmed computers at U.S. and South Korean government agencies for days was even broader than realized, also targeting the White House, the Pentagon and the New York Stock Exchange.

June 30th, 2009 Rackspace, one of the MAJOR dedicated server hosting providers of the world, went down severely for more than an hour yesterday, resulting in with many popular websites going down like eventbrite.com, Timberlake's blog, Malkin's blog and etc. As Rackspace was found quoting, We are having an issue that is affecting part of our DFW data center.