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5. Go to CNN.com. Find out why TwitterTwitter is down.

4. Open your front door. See the sun, listen to the birds, and pick up the paper. Wave to your neighbors.

3. Get actual work done.

2. Head for the nearest airport. Take the next flight to anywhere. Wireless connection is no longer necessary. Your freedom is complete.

1. FacebookFacebook. Go ahead. It may not be as young, as fresh, or as cool. But a little nostalgia and vindication is always there waiting for you.

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Twitter.com is ot of service again. Status.twitter.com is available and says: “We’re working to recover from a site outage and will update as we learn more. Update (11:57a): The site is becoming more responsive but is still slow.”

UPDATE 21:30 CET by Extraterrestric: Twitter.com is back.

This morning civilization almost ground to a halt as TwitterTwitter was hit with a DDoS or Distributed Denial of Service Attack and went down for over two hours, with intermittent outages continuing even as they got the situation more under control. So what exactly is a DDoS attack? The goal of any Denial of Service is to take out a specific online resource and make it unavailable to its users. Targets are typically hugely popular destinations with a lot to lose, and with Twitter’s explosive growth comes its emergence as a juicy target for hackers and miscellaneous enemies or pranksters. DDoS attacks often involve sending a flood of external communication requests to the site that at first glance may appear just like legitimate traffic. The intent is to overwhelm the service’s resources to such a degree that it can’t respond to real requests for real users, effectively rendering the site unreachable or so slow to respond as to be impossible to use for some period of time… Read on at Mashable.com

TwitterTwitter (Twitter) is currently experiencing extended downtime: a 30 minute outage that’s one of the longest in recent months. Back in 2007 and 2008, Twitter downtime was relatively frequent: this year the site has been far more stable and its early outages have been largely forgotten. In the last 5 minutes, Twitter has acknowledged the downtime on its status blog, but adds that it’s unsure of the cause:
Site is down. We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly. Via Mashable.com

When Yiying Lu designed the Twitter Fail Whale, she probably didn’t expect it to become very popular; after all, it’s an image that appears only when something isn’t working. However, a year ago TwitterTwitter (Twitter) was so unstable that the fail whale image popped up to hundreds of thousands of users almost daily, and history was made. Details…