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Twitter's DNS Meltdown Proves Password Recovery Systems Need Work

26 Points

When Twitter's DNS entries were hacked on Friday and the microblogging platform's homepage was defaced, replaced by a statement of responsibility by the so-called "Iranian Cyber Army," many users had a feeling that a pretty major shakedown was in the works. Once initial investigations revealed that the website's DNS settings were hijacked, and Twitter's DNS provider, Dyn Inc, absolved itself of responsibility, stating that the records were changed by an authorized user, things really got interesting.

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ANOTHER Twitter Outage - Thursday, August 21st

46 Points

Something is amiss at Twitter - there is yet another Twitter outage. That's right. Twitter is down. Again. As of around 12:00 Noon, EST, on August 21st, the Twitter site, API and overall service have been down for somewhere around 25 minutes now, and counting.

We're not sure why Twitter is down this time, but we'll keep track of the Twitter outage in this post and keep you all updated.

Update: 12:21 PM EST - Twitter seems to be back up - for now. No word yet on a reason for the outage.

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Yesterday's Twitter outages due to "tweaking"

138 Points

Looks like the cat with the screwdriver was allowed too much leeway in the server room. If you were frustrated with Twitter yesterday then here is why.  From the Twitter blog

 "The Devil's in the DetailsAs much as we'd love to blame yesterday's outage on scaling issues, hardware, exponential growth, rouge bots, aberrant behavior, or even our brief stint on Japanese television last night, we can't. Having achieved a strong position with regard to scaling Twitter, we felt comfortable enough to begin optimizing lots of smaller parts of our application for maximum...

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More twitter problems

106 Points

It has been REALLY frustrating using Twitter over the last several days. We have had major problems connecting and posting. The kitten fixing the server pictures are getting tiresome really fast...