Twitter hacked? (updated, short answer: "no")

Posted by Xeni Jardin, February 27, 2008 8:15 PM | permalink

Not sure what's going on over at Twitter, but when I attempt to access the site, each new refresh logs me in as some other seemingly random user, generates a seemingly random series of users I'm not "following," and the top post shown says something about a tiny penis, and following a hack, no matter how many refreshes I hit. (shrugs). Screengrab. Update: oh, nevermind. But Scott Beale wins in "best coverage of downtime in 100 chars or less." Valleywag explains.

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#1 posted by Nora

, February 27, 2008 8:25 PM

http://istwitterdown.com/ I'm being lied to.

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#2 posted by jburris , February 27, 2008 8:29 PM

im having the same problem.
so are all my friends

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#3 posted by OrinZ , February 27, 2008 9:40 PM

I, for one, rather enjoyed seeing myself say things like "getting the vat of jello ready for naked wrestling - cherry flavor!!" Sad—I wish it were true.

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#4 posted by juliegomoll , February 27, 2008 9:45 PM

I had no access via web or Twitterific for over 7 hours - assumed it was down. Lack of general uproar online should have tipped me off that this wasn't the case...

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#5 posted by dougkress , February 28, 2008 12:43 AM

How did they know? Well, I guess the secret's out now.

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#6 posted by K S La Boca , February 28, 2008 5:23 AM

Has anyone heard what caused Boing Boing's downtime last week?