Twitter went down and people put on their tin foil hats
Wake up sheeple! Now is not the time to sleep on suspicious connections between mega social media platforms and the presidential race.
Twitter went down globally Monday, and it's no mere coincidence. Or that's the theory, according to the concerned citizens who flooded Twitter's Facebook page (naturally) to complain.
The common thread, as they see it? The micro-blogging service is clearly in cahoots with Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
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WikiLeaks released its latest batch of hacked Democratic National Committee emails Monday afternoon, around the time Twitter went down -- a sequence of events that was thoroughly noted by the comment section.
While it hasn't yet addressed the Twitter outage, WikiLeaks did claim on Facebook it was suffering from a "massive targeted" distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
The group also issued a request for donations to upgrade its servers.
"Keep us strong," it posted.
Twitter's head of infrastructure Mazdak Hashemi later tweeted that the interruption was "due to a network routing misconfiguration during internal testing."
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Ariel Bogle was an associate editor with Mashable in Australia covering technology. Previously, Ariel was associate editor at Future Tense in Washington DC, an editorial initiative between Slate and New America.
