Twitter and Facebook DDoS was Targeted at One User
The following article was just posted over at CNET News regarding the massive DD0S (Distributed Denial of Service) that targeted Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and more.
Via CNET News:
A pro-Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google’s Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial of service attack that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive.
It’s not over yet, Twitter has been up/down/degraded all morning. 3rd party platforms using the twitter API are still being heavily affected as well.