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Twitter and Facebook attacked

By 6000 | 6000 | August 6, 2009

Social networking sites Twitter and Facebook were both unavailable for long periods this afternoon (Central African Time) due to a Distributed Denial of Service attack or DDoS, a process whereby huge numbers of infected computers, controlled by a single “master computer” besiege the servers of a site with demands for data until the servers – and the site - breaks. Graham [...]

9 Comments Also tagged DDoS, south africa, twitter |Posted in in the news, that's a bit mad, this is south africa

The importance of twitter explained

By 6000 | 6000 | June 15, 2009

A common complaint of Twitter users is the assumptions made about Twitter and Twitter users by non-Twitter users. Twitter does have many different uses depending on what you want to get out of it, whether it is organising get-togethers, discussing or seeking solutions to technical problems, sharing photos and news stories in real time, promoting your [...]

4 Comments Also tagged brian micklethwait, simon heffer, social media, twitter |Posted in UK, annoying people, from the blogroll

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