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.
Hacker attack clamps down Twitter, Facebook also 'looking into' problemsAugust 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.
How to Add Twitter to OrkutJanuary 21st, 2009 Twitter and Orkut have attracted millions of people in the world into social networking. To each, its own.
Google apologises for Gmail outage that affected millionsFebruary 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.
Twitter is Vulnerable to worms : Computer Security ExpertsMay 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.
Keeping it simple: Twitter's new terms of service show it learned a lesson from FacebookSeptember 11th, 2009 Twitter keeps it simple with new terms of serviceSAN FRANCISCO — Twitter Inc. keeps it simple, even when it comes to updating the legalese in its terms of service.
Twitter acting as 'word-of-mouth publicity' mediumSeptember 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Twitter has become a rage, right from college students to celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, and researchers at Penn State University have now claimed that the micro-blogging site is also benefiting companies. Jim Jansen, associate professor of information science and technology, College of Information Science and Technology, Penn State, says that 20 percent of the tweets contain requests for product information or responses to the requests.
Whitehall's 20-page user guide to TwitterJuly 28th, 2009 LONDON - Ministers at the Whitehall, the administrative centre of the UK government, have been provided with a document spanning 20 pages on how to use popular microblogging website Twitter. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills created hitehall's first ever Twitter strategy as a tutorial to overnment departments to post tweets more regularly, reports The Independent.
Britain's royal family joins Twitter _ but don't expect one to 'tweet'July 10th, 2009 British royal family joins TwitterLONDON — Britain's royal family has extended its kingdom further into cyberspace and joined Twitter — but don't expect Her Majesty to tweet. Buckingham Palace, which already has a significant online presence, said Friday that it has set up a Twitter account to alert royal watchers to what's happening with the family.
PayPal isn't friendly to merchants, consumers during lengthy outage that crimps online salesAugust 4th, 2009 PayPal outage frustrates merchants, consumersSAN JOSE, Calif. — PayPal suffered periodic breakdowns that crimped Internet sales for more than four hours Monday.
Schedule Tweets by Three WaysMarch 25th, 2009 Well, twitter has already been phenomenally popular by its own merit. Most of the professionals, entrepreneurs and celebrities are tweeting it in at twitter.
Best Buy, after job posting that sought 250 Twitter followers, seeks advice from WebJuly 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.
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.
Classics from Dickens, Sallinger and Jane Austen to feature in Twitter!May 12th, 2009 LONDON - Classic literary works by Charles Dickens, JD Sallinger and Jane Austen are now being shortened into 140-character "tweets", as part of the latest diversion of the popular Twitter website. Bookish readers of the micro-blogging site are now boiling down such great works into a single sentence, and what is coming out is a whole new trend of 140 word synopses of some of the most classic novels.lthough the brevity of the summaries could appeal to modern readers more, the trend of using Internet slang might just offend literary purists.
Only 10pct of Twitter users do all the tweetingJune 6th, 2009 LONDON - A meagre 10 percent of total Twitter users post 90 per cent of all tweets on the micro-blogging website, reveals a Harvard Business School report. And it is the prolific Twitter users, like Ashton Kutcher and his wife Demi Moore, who account for the majority of tweets.
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August 8th, 2009 at 7:22 am
I’ve experienced Twitter downtime as well. It did get kind of frustrating to login or navigate the pages. I hope Twitter finds out what is causing these problems so they’ll be able to come up with the appropriate solution. Thanks!