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Twitter's "Harsh and Cold" Honesty Tells Devs No ETA for Fixes

Source: louisgray-com

Aug 08, 2009

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The much-discussed distributed denial of service attacks over the last two days which hobbled Twitter and also impacted a number of other sites, including Facebook and LiveJournal, has also had a tremendous negative impact downstream, bringing many third party applications and services to a halt. With the sluggishness and non-responsiveness stretching into what will be the third calendar day tomorrow, Twitter told developers, heading into the weekend, that not only was the attack ongoing, and not lessening, but they had no ETA for anything to get better.

While many developers are understandably sympathetic toward Twitter's troubles, even as the popular microblogging service's network architecture is being analyzed for weaknesses, the strain many of them were feeling without receiving answers started to be on display this evening as hours went on without an update - while at the same time, key Twitter employees happily updated that they were going out for sushi or enjoying tonight's Underworld concert.

One developer, in the company's Google Groups forums, wrote: ...Read the full article

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