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Twitter suffered from yet more security jitters on Tuesday night, after another attack left the site briefly unavailable.

The outage lasted only about 30 minutes, from about 2020 (BST) and was far less severe than an attack last Thursday that took out the site for around two hours and left it offering impaired services for days afterwards.

Last week's attack is widely attributed to an assault on accounts run by a Georgian blogger. The apparent assault on Cyxymu coincided with the first anniversary of the ground war between Georgia and Russia. Accounts maintained by Cyxymu on Facebook, Blogger and LiveJournal were also targeted, as well as Twitter, but only the micro-blogging service suffered downtime.

Twitter is still investigating the cause of Tuesday's brief outage, which followed a site update that may (or may not) have played a role in subsequent events. ®

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Anonymous Coward

Wow!

You think by now they would have covered up there security flaws. They should be having security audits right now to find all of their holes. There is also a new security product called Xybershield which protects against hackers. It's a very cool product if you have not heard about it.

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Offlining Twitter

Is this something we can do when we feel like it, or is there a queue?

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So What?

Oh wow, Twitter went down again. I wondered why the whole world came to a standstill... </sarcasm>

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