Twitter is Down
And this mess is your fault.
When Twitter launched a few years ago, it was largely a tech and Internet insider’s destination. It was a place where the Web cognoscenti dumped 140-character missives about the work they were doing, who they had met that day, and the color shirt they had just grabbed from the dresser drawer. When it became a cultural phenomenon—with thousands of new users joining every day—the most distinct difference was the appearance of the loveable Fail Whale. Whenever Twitter went down, the service would post an image of a cute, blue whale and explain that “Twitter is over capacity.” The company simply couldn’t keep up with the volume of information from its Tweeters. Last year, the company made a concerted effort to address those capacity problems, and now Fail Whale sightings are as rare as those for white whales.
The DDoS problem is a whale of a different color, however. All you people who I’ve warned over and over again to install or update your security software, everyone who can’t stop visiting HotSexyLibrarians.com or downloading music and movies from Igotyourfiles.com, and all those noobs who insist on opening every single e-mail attachment they get—you did this. You and your zombie PCs are to blame.
Many of the news reports I read yesterday used the phrase “denial of service attack” and then the acronym “DDoS.” So, what’s the extra “D” mean? Turns out it stands for “distributed,” which, in this case, means the attack does not originate from one place. Instead, it comes from millions of places. Put simply, a denial of service attack is not come from one big server somewhere in Russia, China, or North Korea that attacks a commercial enterprise’s servers here in the U.S. or elsewhere in the world. If it was, companies could find it easier to block, or at least stop, the attacks when they begin. A DDoS is different. Yes, it’s coordinated, but the coordination is spread across thousands, if not millions, of PCs around the world.
Yesterday, I suffered through three hours without access to Twitter. The micro-blogging service, which was hit by a massive denial of service (DDoS) attack, eventually came back—and then it failed again last night. Twitter’s working now, but it’s acting like it’s on life support: slow to respond, listless, and drifting in and out of consciousness.
All the while, you sit at home with your zombie PC wondering why you can’t get to Twitter. I wonder why, too.
Rosemarie Grabowski, A fellow PC user has always run her businesses from my home. So her computer is an important business tools that she relies on daily. Just a few of the reasons she is involved in the field of PC Security. Not just personal but two fold. She wants her computer to run as it should. Contact her at 308-687-6085 or www. topsecretfreereport.com/makeadifference-x CHECK OUT MY BLOG FOR SOMEMORE TIMELY INFORMATION: http:// mypcsafefromspywar.blogspot.com Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/security-articles/twitter-is-down-1151398.html
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