Twitter seems to be almost back to normal today, but yesterday’s DDoS attacks marked one of the longest service outages since the regular sightings of the fail whale that plagued the microblogging tool last year.
At Mashable, we used most of the downtime to cover the news of the event, but elsewhere, it was highly disruptive to many people’s day, forcing them to change plans and the way they communicate. NBA star Ron Artest even took to the telephone (and UStream) so he could stay in touch with fans without having Twitter available to him.
We’re curious what you did during the downtime. Did you turn to an alternative platform? Did you keep hitting “refresh” until Twitter came back? Or did you do something more constructive, like say, work? Let us know in the comments!
Full Coverage of the Social Media DDoS
--Twitter and Facebook DDoS Attacks Targeted One Man
--Is Cyber Warfare to Blame for Twitter Meltdown?
--Denial of Service Attacks Being Investigated by Google, Twitter, Facebook
--Facebook Problems Also the Result of DDoS Attack
--Twitter Outage Explained: What’s a Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)?