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06 August 2009 2 comments

Paul Penrose

Head of Research

Finextra

OMG. Twitter down. Hit by DoS attack. Facebook also grinding. Cyber-sabotage suspected. And we can't even tweet the news. World grinds to halt. Not

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Matt White North America editor at Finextra

06 August 2009

Bit long-winded Paul. Us Twitterers get bored after 140...

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07 August 2009

Hmm. I use plenty of other microblogging tools, like identi.ca based on open source Laconi.ca so I didn't notice Twitter being down.

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