For the past 90 minutes or so, Twitter has been down and it’s apparently because someone has launched a DoS attack against the service:
We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly.
Update: we are defending against a denial-of-service attack.
In an unrelated story, corporations all over America are reporting a stunning rise in worker productivity this morning.
Update @ 11:30am: Twitter is now saying the site is back up, but it sounds like problems persist:
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.
It’s still down……
