It was the big social media story of the week; on Thursday, Twitter went down due to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. And while Twitter was the most visible target, Facebook, Google, and others were also under fire due to a geopolitical attack against one man.
It’s been three days since the attacks. Everything’s back to normal, right? No, not exactly. While Twitter, YouTube (YouTube), Livejournal, and others are working again, the attacks are still ongoing. This has resulted in the Twitter API and third party apps being hit hard as the social media company tries to resolve the DDoS crisis.
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