And the server issues can mean complete loss of data, hours or days of downtime, and complete turn and burn of the business at hand. Well first, the protocol is new, developed by Google, untested in the wild, not well reviewed outside of Google...
Of course, Twitter will want to keep working on its security and downtime issues if it wants to charge businesses for premium services. Today, there was downtime likely related to a major Apple event (not the first time that's happened).
Twitter Suffers More Downtime, Attacks Posted by Nathania Johnson Aug 12, 2009 Twitter went down again, and a message on their Status page points to another attack: Update (12:17p): We're back up and analyzing the traffic data to determine the...
Twitter went down again, and a message on their Status page points to another attack: Update (12:17p): We're back up and analyzing the traffic data to determine the nature of this attack. Yesterday, Twitter was dealing with malware affecting user...
LiveJournal experienced downtime as well. We are aware that a handful of non-Google sites were impacted by a DoS attack this morning, and are in contact with some affected companies to help investigate this attack.
Facebook, LiveJournal Also Experiencing Downtime Issues (UPDATE) Posted by Nathania Johnson Aug 6, 2009 Update: 1:40pm EST - ZDNet has official yet vague word from Facebook: Earlier this morning, we encountered issues within our network that...
Another possibility is an attack on those sites as well, but that is just speculation at this point. Update: 1:40pm EST - ZDNet has official yet vague word from Facebook: Earlier this morning, we encountered issues within our network that resulted...
