Twitter is Under Attack!

Twitter just announced on their status site that they are being attacked!

Folks,

Twitter had a hiccup again. Remember you can always check if Twitter is down at http://status.twitter.com

Mashable posted about the Twitter downtime with some background on past outages.

9:09am CST The Twitter status page reports Twitter has been down for 25 minutes. I was able to send one tweet out to tell people how to check the Twitter status page

9:15am CST Thinking about how to adapt the song, “American Pie” to, “The Day That Twitter Died”

Bye bye microblogging site
Took my mouse over Tweetdeck but your service had died
And Internet famous folks kissed their ____ goodbye
Saying, “this is the day Twitter died”
“This is the day that Twitter died”

9:29am CST Twitter has been down for 45 minutes.

9:34am CST Twitter search is up and I see people have tweeted in the last few minutes

9:34am CST Twitter has been down for 1 hour. Thinking about it, 9/11 happened on a Thursday Tuesday morning (Correction by @wr3n that 9/11 was on a Tuesday) …just like Twitter is happening today. I wonder if CNN is going to mention that Twitter is down.

9:52am CST Twitter announces downtime is due to a Denial of Service attack!

10:02am CST Twitter came back up!

11:15am CST Looks like CNN is reporting the Twitter outage. Kinda fun to see that a Web 2.0 service makes the national news!