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Twitter gets twitted

  • 06-08-2009 4:05pm
    #1
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭


    Its been DoS-ed!

    /Internet IQ rises


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  • #2
    jumpguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    ...Right. Works fine for me. :confused:

    EDIT: Ohh...you mean DOS...DNS is a completely different thing.


  • #3
    Adamcp898
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭Adamcp898


    bunch of tw*ts :rolleyes:


  • #4
    dez_warlock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 396 ✭✭dez_warlock


    mike65 wrote: »
    Its been DNS-ed!

    /Internet QI rises


    Poor spelling remains.


  • #5
    hobochris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,164 ✭✭✭hobochris


    proof that dos attacks arn't always a bad thing :D


  • #6
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Well overdue imho


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  • #7
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    dez_warlock wrote: »
    Poor spelling remains.

    I had Stephen Fry on my mind, he must be dismayed


  • #8
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    mike65 wrote: »
    Its been DNS-ed!

    /Internet QI rises

    I have no idea what you just said.


  • #9
    Aussie Rossie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭Aussie Rossie


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    I have no idea what you just said.

    Try using this site: www.google.com

    Apparently you can find out lots of things by using it.....


  • #10
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Aussie Rossie wrote: »
    Try using this site: www.google.com

    Apparently you can find out lots of things by using it.....

    After the OP's edit it makes sense. Beforehand I was confuxed about it.

    Thanks for that handy link though. Google, huh?
    Might come in useful some day even if it is spelled wrong.


  • #11
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    Internet superheros strike again


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  • #12
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Feck the DOS attacks...nuke their server farm...it's the only way to be sure. :pac:


  • #13
    Mena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Mena


    Thread title fail. We all know it should be "Twitter gets Twatted"

    At any rate, this can only be a good thing. I knew there was a valid use for Denial of Service attacks.


  • #14
    Riamfada
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    Think of all the little tweets that were never born because of this. You people are sick


  • #15
    Sir Gallagher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,836 ✭✭✭Sir Gallagher


    So what does this mean in non-nerd terms?


  • #16
    A7X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭A7X


    Whats going on? :(


  • #17
    Adamcp898
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭Adamcp898


    So basically there's loads of people out there struggling to tell the world they just took a dump and are now going for a ham sandwich?

    or have I got it wrong :confused:


  • #18
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    A7X wrote: »
    Whats going on? :(

    Well... I read up on it on that Goggle website (which, as it turns out isn't just a swimming supply site) and I believe it goes something like this:

    A DOS attack is when someone keeps attacking the Disk Operating System of a computing device. So in this case some man named Twitter has had his computer DOSed which would be rather annoying if you were him. Although having said that, Twitter is a pretty silly nickname so he's probably used to bullying at this stage.

    Simple solution I suppose would be to stop whoever is messing with his computing device from getting into his house. I would suggest locking the door and maybe putting a security word lock mechanism on his computing device.


  • #19
    Sir Gallagher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,836 ✭✭✭Sir Gallagher


    Adamcp898 wrote: »
    So basically there's loads of people out there struggling to tell the world they just took a dump and are now going for a ham sandwich?

    or have I got it wrong :confused:

    Oh no, how will i find out the latest on Ashton Kutcher and Paula Abdul now? :eek:


  • #20
    Caoimhín
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    I feel proud that I have no idea what any of you are talking about.


  • #21
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    Facebook apparently was down at the same time also.


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  • #22
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    1....healthy dose of DoS-ed.
    2....Internet IQ rising.
    3....???????????
    4....Profit.

    where's Turd?


  • #23
    Kazuma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 558 ✭✭✭Kazuma


    Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »
    1....healthy dose of DoS-ed.
    2....Internet IQ rising.
    3....???????????
    4....Profit.

    where's Turd?
    4Chan memes? On Boards?! Are you insane?!? :O


  • #24
    donmeister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭donmeister


    In non-nerd terms - Twitter is fucked!


  • #25
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    I seen an interesting piece on Newsnight last night

    apparently during the Iran protests a few months ago, Twitter was due to be taken offline for maintainance but the US State Dept demanded that they postponed it until the protests were over

    and it's not just a theory either, Twitter's CEO is the one that said it during the interview

    wtf!


  • #26
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    I'm confused.

    I thought a DOS attack is a concerted effort to flood servers with a huge level of superfluous crud?

    Isn't that just an average day of operation for Twitter?

    :confused:


  • #27
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Kazuma wrote: »
    4Chan memes? On Boards?! Are you insane?!? :O

    I always thought that was from a weak Simpsons episode?


  • #28
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    My name is URL wrote: »
    I seen an interesting piece on Newsnight last night

    apparently during the Iran protests a few months ago, Twitter was due to be taken offline for maintainance but the US State Dept demanded that they postponed it until the protests were over

    and it's not just a theory either, Twitter's CEO is the one that said it during the interview

    wtf!

    Wasn't it because people were using Twitter as a way to get info about the elections out of Iran. Possibly it wasn't blocked or something?


  • #29
    projectmayhem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,480 ✭✭✭projectmayhem


    Posts on boards are on the rise as twitter continues to wobble after it's attack....


  • #30
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Wasn't it because people were using Twitter as a way to get info about the elections out of Iran. Possibly it wasn't blocked or something?

    Propaganda machine imho


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  • #31
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Wasn't it because people were using Twitter as a way to get info about the elections out of Iran. Possibly it wasn't blocked or something?

    Sample Iranian tweet:

    I'm cleaning out my ear with a cotton bud and then I'm going to have a yummy snack. Oh yeah, some boriing old election was brutally rep<runs_out_of_space>.


  • #32
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    My name is URL wrote: »

    wtf!

    Is it really such a surprise that the yanks would take a primary interest in any undermining reports from post-election Iran making their way out into the world?

    What I find harder to believe is their CEO telling us that those requests had no bearing on their maintenance re-scheduling...


  • #33
    BaconZombie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,813 ✭✭✭BaconZombie


    FAIL..,!!!

    DoS = Denial of Service
    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Well... I read up on it on that Goggle website (which, as it turns out isn't just a swimming supply site) and I believe it goes something like this:

    A DOS attack is when someone keeps attacking the Disk Operating System of a computing device. So in this case some man named Twitter has had his computer DOSed which would be rather annoying if you were him. Although having said that, Twitter is a pretty silly nickname so he's probably used to bullying at this stage.

    Simple solution I suppose would be to stop whoever is messing with his computing device from getting into his house. I would suggest locking the door and maybe putting a security word lock mechanism on his computing device.


  • #34
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    BOFH_139 wrote: »
    FAIL..,!!!

    DoS = Denial of Service

    I assumed he was joking?


  • #35
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »
    1....healthy dose of DoS-ed.
    2....Internet IQ rising.
    3....???????????
    4....Profit.

    where's Turd?

    I was busy....erm, not DoSing Twitter. Yeah that'll do


  • #36
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Even made Sky News:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/captsolo/3794856563/

    As seen on Twitter, incidentally.


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  • #37
    Dankoozy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭Dankoozy


    now just facebook left :) nuke them and kill mark zuckerberg


  • #38
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    I always thought that was from a weak Simpsons episode?

    SOUTH PARK DID IT!


  • #39
    BaconZombie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,813 ✭✭✭BaconZombie


    It was a /. meme for year before 4chan...
    Kazuma wrote: »
    4Chan memes? On Boards?! Are you insane?!? :O


  • #40
    Goodshape
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    My name is URL wrote: »
    I seen an interesting piece on Newsnight last night

    apparently during the Iran protests a few months ago, Twitter was due to be taken offline for maintainance but the US State Dept demanded that they postponed it until the protests were over

    and it's not just a theory either, Twitter's CEO is the one that said it during the interview

    wtf!

    Twitter was being used to keep information flowing within, and about, Iran as Iranian television, mobile networks and other such infrastructure was taken down as the protests went on.

    Twitter maintenance was scheduled for middle of the night US time, which would have been middle of the day in Iran. Twitter decided to switch that around, thus delaying the maintenance, out of good will.

    It wasn't down to any government pressure afaik.


  • #41
    Ricky91t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,281 ✭✭✭Ricky91t


    Ongoing denial-of-service attack 2 hours ago

    We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly.

    Update: the site is back up, but we are continuing to defend against and recover from this attack.

    Update (9:46a): As we recover, users will experience some longer load times and slowness. This includes timeouts to API clients. We’re working to get back to 100% as quickly as we can.

    :)


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  • #42
    jumpguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    aidan_walsh wrote: »
    Even made Sky News:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/captsolo/3794856563/

    As seen on Twitter, incidentally.
    You mean they stopped reporting on Michael Jackson's death for a second?


  • #43
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    jumpguy wrote: »
    You mean they stopped reporting on Michael Jackson's death for a second?

    They were left with no choice...their twitter feed from MJ fans was down...


  • #44
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    "Eating A Pack Of Tayto"

    .....I figured I could just twit here while the site's down if that's ok with y'all.


  • #45
    Prof.Badass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Prof.Badass


    "18:59. Took a dump; good to soft, brown to medium brown."


    btw, did anyone else here help towards making #gorrilapenis a hot-topic a few months back?


  • #46
    Frank Spencer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭Frank Spencer


    It was Thaed.......................

    http://wwww.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055641963


  • #47
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Goodshape wrote: »
    It wasn't down to any government pressure afaik.

    Well they wouldn't say it was, but I find it highly suspect tbh

    Though to be fair, as a rule I don't trust anything to do with US foreign policy so maybe I'm biased

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8186747.stm

    watch from 3:18, he seems a bit edgy answering that question


  • #48
    Goodshape
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    I'll give that a watch later.

    Though from using Twitter at the time, I think there would have been outrage among the wider user base had they gone ahead with that downtime. Iran protests was THE hot topic on Twitter at the time. To take it down right in the middle of those protests would have upset a lot of people.

    And while there was certainly a noticable push from both sides of the
    Iran debate to get certain topics and "news" spread throughout the network, I really think the system is just far too open for a single viewpoint propaganda campaign to have any great success. The counter-argument is always only a tweet, or re-tweet, away.


  • #49
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    BOFH_139 wrote: »
    FAIL..,!!!

    DoS = Denial of Service

    We're really not familiar with humour are we? ;)


  • #50
    Loomis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭Loomis


    Stephen wrote: »
    Facebook apparently was down at the same time also.

    That was down to the extra traffic it was receiveing from people rushing onto Facebook because they couldn't access their Twitter account.


  • #51
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    It still seems to be semi-down - I was trying to tweet and my beak is clamped shut with a spinning wheel of death; trying to Follow and it won't do that either.


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