After last week's outage, Twitter is down briefly because of another attackAugust 11th, 2009 Another attack downs Twitter, briefly this timeNEW YORK — Twitter has suffered from another attack following one that left the site down for several hours last week. Tuesday's outage was brief.
Twitter outage clamps tweets, site says cause 'unknown'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.
Twitter security breach hits Obama's accountMay 4th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Twitter, the micro-blogging service, suffered another hole in its security after a French computer hacker got into its internal system and accessed accounts including that of US President Barack Obama. The hacker, posing as "Hacker Croll", uploaded a string of screenshots showing his access to the internal website settings.
Blogger blames Russia for attack on Facebook and TwitterAugust 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.
Another hacking attempt on Twitter: What, when, how!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.
Facebook Turns to Real Time Web InteractivityMarch 5th, 2009 After it's failed attempts to acquire Twitter, Facebook has come up with new strategies. It has incurred a number of changes to the homepage/newsfeed.
Hacker attacks that caused Twitter outage show vulnerability of social networksAugust 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.
White House joins FaceBook, Twitter, MySpace with updates on flu and other topicsMay 1st, 2009 White House joins FaceBook, Twitter, MySpaceWASHINGTON — OMG. The White House is joining the popular social network sites of Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.
Twitter Denies Facebook on A $500 Million Takeover!November 25th, 2008 Facebook offered to buy Twitter for $500 million of overvalued Facebook stock, Kara Swisher says. Twitter rejected the offer for several reasons:
And they can be,
At Facebook's real valuation, $5 billion or so, the offer only amounted to $150 million (not bad for two-year old company with no revenue, but a far cry from the billion-dollar dream)
Twitter has high hopes for its own secret revenue model which will be announced next year.
Twitter as botmaster: hacker used Twitter to control network of hundreds of infected PCsAugust 14th, 2009 Hacker used Twitter to control infected PCsSAN JOSE, Calif. — Twitter's been having a rough couple of weeks.
Federal agency Web sites knocked out by massive, resilient cyber attackJuly 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.
Incoming Alaska governor not the Twitter fan that Palin isJuly 8th, 2009 Incoming Alaska governor to tweet less than PalinANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska's incoming governor isn't the tweeter that Sarah Palin is. Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell says he "may or may not" use a new Twitter account his staff established for him this week.
Tweet this! Tweeting too frequently can cause you health problemsApril 28th, 2009 With any exciting updates comes a note of precaution. Take Twitter for an example.
International cyber attack broader than suspected; White House, Pentagon among targetsJuly 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.
UK's oldest Twitter user is a 103yr old womanMay 15th, 2009 LONDON - While most ladies her age prefer to sit quietly, 103-year-old English lady Ivy Bean loves to Twitter, something that has made her the oldest user of the social networking site. Bean, a great grandmother, decided to join Twitter after she got bored of using Facebook, where she had made 4,800 friends.
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August 6th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Right before the attack, Tweets from all over the world indicated that the facebook pages of important opposition leaders in Iran went down, a.o. the one of Mousavi. It is still not reacheable as we speak.
About an hour later, Twitter went completely off-line. Twitter is used since weeks by the Iran opposition movement to organize and distribute info about protests. It’s actually about the only way the get info out.
At the same moment, iran.whyweprotest.net went out too. And LiveJournal, where a lot of Iranian bloggers are venting information and frustration.
If you add everything together, I would not be surprised if the attacks came from the Iran governement in an attempt to silence the opposition, at least temporally.
August 7th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
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