[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“That was how the morning went for many people when
they turned to Twitter only to find that the wildly popular
social-networking site was dead in the water. How dead was it?
There wasn’t even a fail-whale to be seen.“So what happened? Twitter is still working it out. But, the
site’s official blog reported that “We are defending against a
denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly.” As
of 12:46 PM Eastern, Twitter was up, still staggered, but working
again.”