Apparently, we’re not out of the woods just yet. While Twitter itself has been working reliably for most of the day, some third-party applications remain impacted by measures the company has taken to defend against DDoS attacks.
UberTwitter, the most popular Twitter client for BlackBerry, seems to have been particularly hard hit by the outage, as users complaining about its unavailability have kept it a trending topic for most of the day (it’s not working for me either).
As we head into the weekend, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has posted another update about the current status of the service. On the Twitter blog, Stone writes:
“In the past 24 hours, we've been contending with a variety of attacks that continue to change in nature and intensity. We're working to restore access to apps built on the Twitter platform that were affected by defensive measures—there was some overcompensation on our part as we tune our system to deal with this scale of attack.”
Regarding reports that the attack is related to the Russia-Georga political conflict, Stone writes that the attacks “appear to have been geopolitical in motivation. However, we don't feel it's appropriate to engage in speculative discussion about these motivations.”