Twitter's servers had been hit Aug. 11 with yet another distributed denial-of-service assault, sending the microblogging support crashing down.
Around 3 p.m. EDT, Twitter posted an updated to its status blog stating that it was experiencing a site outage and was examining the nature of the assault. Later, Alex Payne,
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"Expect periodic slowness and errors until the assault passes or is countered by our operations team and hosting provider," Payne wrote. "Updates will be provided as we get them."
The situation follows a DDoS attack Aug. 6 that knocked out Twitter and affected numerous other sites, including Facebook, LiveJounal and YouTube. In that case,
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The Aug. eleven assault subsided relatively quickly. But, according to Payne, it picked up again later in the day.
"We're trying to work with [Twitter's support provider] to ensure minimal impact to the API,
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brought in for this issue."
The services appears to be functioning at the moment.
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