I just don’t get it. Is it people hate twitter? Or just want fame?? I just don’t get it…
Yes.. I am talking about the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Twitter started on August 6, 2009. As Twitter states in their status blog post they are defending against the attack and try to provide new status periodically.
I should say that Twitter people are really working hard on this.. Although the attack is going on (for 22 hours now), they managed to increase the level of service dramatically where API clients work “almost” fine and the Web interface works at some level “over average”.. I mean it.. That is a success…
Still it seem the DDoS attackers are really good at it and quite persistent. Still with the technical knowledge and experience I have I can see “how” this can be done, but I keep wondering about “Why?”.. Any geek would say of course:
Because I can…
But should you? There are a lot more positive ways to use the technical skills to do some good… Just think about it…
And also I want to say:
Dear Twitter,
Is there anything that we can do to help you defending against this “evil” attack?
