http://status.twitter.com/, FYI.

Aug 6th Thu
Ongoing denial-of-service attack 52 minutes ago
We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status 
again shortly.

Update: the site is back up, but we are continuing to defend against and 
recover from this attack.


Richard

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joshua Shriver" <jshriver@gmail.com>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Twitter down?


> After doing a quick look on my break, the last IP I could get on a
> traceroute ends at ntt.net which appears to be a japanese backbone 
> provider.
> Not sure where twitter keeps it's servers but seems odd they'd be out of 
> the
> country or perhaps some odd routing.
>
> -Josh
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