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Loading ...Web darling and social media service-de-jour Twitter was wiped off of the net temporarily today. Probably not in a response to Twitter CEO Evan Williams‘ appearance on BBC’s newsnight last night, where he pronounced London as Twitter’s top city in his first interview on UK Television.
The micro-blogging site was brought to a stand-still by  a distributed denial of service attack. Details are still sketchy, Biz Stone, on Twitter’s own blog, says:
We are defending against this attack now and will continue to update our status blog as we continue to defend and later investigate.
The service is back up, but the Twitter team are still investigating the attack and access is slow. Twitter has had a series of security incidents of late, the most recent involving a hacker gaining access to internal Twitter documents. As with any company, increased profile means more targeted attacks. It is sounding like time for Twitter to get a CSO in place.
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