Due to defensive measures Twitter took against Thursday's denial-of-service attack, some Twitter clients cannot connect to the site, and many users are unable to tweet via SMS, the company announced Friday. Twitter said it is working as quickly as possible to restore its service. "The attacks have continued in their intensity and changed in their nature ove
r the past 24 hours, and we're working this morning to restore access to applications built on the Twitter platform," Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in a statement. "Regarding insights into the attack, they appear to be geopolitical in motivation. However, we don't feel it's appropriate to engage in speculative discussion about these motivations," Stone said. "The open exchange of information can have a positive impact globally and our job is to keep Twitter services running reliably to the best of our ability." Hackers on Thursday shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter for hours, while Facebook experienced intermittent access problems. Twitter said it suffered a denial-of-service attack, in which hackers command scores of computers toward a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from getting through. The attac ks may have been related to the ongoing political conflict between Russia and Georgia.
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r the past 24 hours, and we're working this morning to restore access to applications built on the Twitter platform," Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in a statement. "Regarding insights into the attack, they appear to be geopolitical in motivation. However, we don't feel it's appropriate to engage in speculative discussion about these motivations," Stone said. "The open exchange of information can have a positive impact globally and our job is to keep Twitter services running reliably to the best of our ability." Hackers on Thursday shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter for hours, while Facebook experienced intermittent access problems. Twitter said it suffered a denial-of-service attack, in which hackers command scores of computers toward a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from getting through. The attac ks may have been related to the ongoing political conflict between Russia and Georgia.For further details visit as : http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Twitter-users-face-another-round-of-outages/articleshow/4869978.cms
