twitterstatus:

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.

Update (4:14p): Site latency has continued to improve, however some web requests continue to fail. This means that some people may be unable to post or follow from the website.

korben:

On en sait enfin un peu plus sur l’attaque contre Twitter, Facebook et LiveJournal qui a eu lieu hier. L’objectif de cette attaque était si l’on en croit Max Kelly, le chef de la sécurité chez Facebook, de faire taire un blogueur Georgien répondant au doux pseudo de Cyxymu. Ce dernier utilise LiveJournal, Facebook, Youtube et Twitter pour raconter ce qui se passe en Georgie.