Twitter is down!! Is facebook next?? 

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Twitter is down!! Is facebook next??
August 6, 2009
by James Allen Pauley-Barker

Twitter has been down since this morning…bummer this is the very first thing I do in the mornings after turning on my computer.

I first noticed something was wrong when I attempted to run my automation software (check out my website if your curious of the automation app I use for Twitter) that kept getting no response status…the rest is history and is now my present deliminator!!

The last update that I’m getting from Twitter is that of -

We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly.

Update: the site is back up, but we are continuing to defend against and recover from this attack.

Update (9:46a): As we recover, users will experience some longer load times and slowness. This includes timeouts to API clients. We’re working to get back to 100% as quickly as we can.

Earlier that more I was getting the same message as most of you were that Twitter’s status site merely states:

Site is down 19 minutes ago
We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly.

Of course I noticed that people were doing the same as me..going back to my next favorite social media site “facebook” to find out why Twitter was down, that when I took notice that facebook could be next, I started to get questions from my friends like “Is anyone else having problems with their facebook this morning?” shortly after that I starting to experience longer load times on facebook.

So, being assumptive I think this reaction about Twitter is starting to effect facebook as well.

Stay tuned for more updates….