Microblogging social platform Twitter was affected by a failure on Thursday 21-06-2012. Users worldwide were occasionally not able to login and the cause is unclear so far. Twitter announced on its blog that is aware of the problem and the technicians are working to fix the issue.
More details have not been provided by the microblogging site. Initially the problem was expected to be resolved after an hour, but now the site was again difficult to reach. In its early years Twitter regularly faced breakdowns, but in the last period, the website was stable.
Update:
Hackers claimed responsability for Twitter’s blackout on Thursday. At first it was thought to be an ordinary failure, but the hacker group UGNazi says it was an attack.
In the Netherlands, users were not able to connect to the site in the afternoon and early evening. The network went online again at around 18.45 local time.
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In America Twitter went initially silent for one hour and less than an hour later collapsed again. According to UGNazi statement, Twitter experienced an average global breakdown for forty minutes.
It was a DDoS attack (Distributed Denial of Service), which supposes and overwhelming number of computers connecting simultaneously to Twitter and thus crashing it.
No error message:
Twitter goes often dark for short period of time, but today’s problem lasted much longer. Users did not receive the usual “Fail Whale” error message: the site was completely unreachable. UGNazi, also known as the Underground Nazi Hacktivist Group, has shut down this year several websites, including those of the CIA in April. The group opposes the U.S. government. Their logo depicts Adolf Hitler, but what the group has to do with Nazis is not clear.
