Twitter Apps Still Recovering From DDoS Attacks

Courtesy Mashable!  Sun, 08/09/2009 - 14:05

Twitter AppsIt was the big social media story of the week; on Thursday, Twitter went down due to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.

And while Twitter was the most visible target, Facebook, Google, and others were also under fire due to a geopolitical attack against one man .

It’s been three days since the attacks. Everything’s back to normal, right? No, not exactly.

While Twitter, YouTube, Livejournal, and others are working again, the...

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