Twitter is being hit by denial-of-service attacks that have left the service unavailable for the better part of Thursday morning.
The microblogging service is currently defending itself against DoS attacks, according to the Twitter Status blog.
"We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly," Twitter wrote on its status blog at 10:48 AM EDT.
Twitter's Fail Whale -- the error message image the service displays when it undergoes outages -- may be somewhat familiar these days, but that doesn't mean that Twitter downtime and outages go unnoticed, particularly when the downtime is due to a malicious attack on the rapidly growing service.
The service was down for nearly two hours, but Twitter claims the service is back up as approximately 11:00 AM EDT. The outages first started to appear around 9:00 AM EDT, and connecting to the service has been sporadic since, with occasional updates being made. However, it appears that the majority of users have been able to access the service.
Twitter addressed the downtime around 10:00 AM EDT, noting that the service was down and that it was looking into the cause. It has now apparently become clear to Twitter that a denial of service attack is taking place and the microblogging service is working to defend against it.
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