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Subject: Twitter mobile down?
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teecha 6.08.09 - 07:07pm
It seems to be hanging for ages and not loading. Anyone else had this today? * +
dave.p 6.08.09 - 07:22pm
Yes, same here at the moment. * +
garion 6.08.09 - 07:24pm
It's been on most of the news programs - it suffered a major DOS attack this afternoon. The site's back up, but apparently it's difficult to get past login at the moment as they're bringing it back online. * +
teecha 6.08.09 - 07:28pm
What's a DOS attack, garion? Please? * +
teecha 6.08.09 - 07:34pm
I think stephen fry's behind the attack! * +
dave.p 6.08.09 - 07:44pm
DOS Denial of service, just read about on the BBC site. * +
teecha 6.08.09 - 07:47pm
Ah! Denial of service attack. Some news blogs point to iran! * +
garion 6.08.09 - 07:53pm
Ah glad someone explained - sorry I was busy. Denial Of Service attacks are launched from 'botnets' a network of infected computers controlled by a malicious person or persons who get the computers to send thousands of access requests per second to a site causing it to crash. I'm not the most techy person in the world, I saw a feature about it on Click. 
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