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Twitter gets twitted

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  • #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: 8,814 ✭✭✭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: 8,814 ✭✭✭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: 25,231 ✭✭✭✭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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  • #52
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Speaking of twitter, doesn't Stephen Fry look very unwell lately?


  • #53
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,231 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    phasers wrote: »
    Speaking of twitter, doesn't Stephen Fry look very unwell lately?

    He lost a lot of weight. He doesn't look ill though

    I don't like him as much since he became a twatter tbh


  • #54
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    My name is URL wrote: »
    He lost a lot of weight. He doesn't look ill though

    I don't like him as much since he became a twatter tbh
    I don't think being that thin suits him.

    http://www.adoptaword.com/news_images/homemain.jpg


  • #55
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,231 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    phasers wrote: »
    I don't think being that thin suits him.

    http://www.adoptaword.com/news_images/homemain.jpg

    He's even thinner than that now!

    http://twitpic.com/cuntm (link-lol)


  • #56
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    My name is URL wrote: »
    He's even thinner than that now!

    http://twitpic.com/cuntm (link-lol)
    :pac: best URL ever

    He looks scary now


  • #57
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    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:
    Earliest one: http://twitter.com/terryodowd
    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!
    Good old American government sticking their nose into other countries business.
    Will they ever learn?

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


  • #58
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Apparently the attack was from Russians trying to get at a Georgian blogger with accounts on Facebook and Twitter.
    Source


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