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Thursday, August 06, 2009

No DDOS Here

It probably was something out the Apocalypse of the imagination for millions of people. It was alsmost as if we'd suddenly fallen back into the Middle Ages. There was international panic, I suppose. Before long, someone will have written a song about it...the only question is how will the world find out about the new song?
Don McLean hit #1 in 1969/1970 with a song about the death of Buddy Holly, proclaiming the singer's death to be "the day the music died." Well, today was the day that Twitter suffered a stroke: not exactly dead, but not able to communicate, either.
For all I know, by this time, the service is back to running all out, but for much of the day, the service was down, plagued by nefarious individulas who overloaded the system with millions (or more) of computer-generated requests, something called a "distributed denial of service" (DDOS) by those techies in the know. To the over 20 million people who use the service to find out such important information as what Paula Abdul's next step will be now that she's gone from "American Idol" or what Mr. Cromartie thinks of the food at Chargers' training camp, it was a dark day, indeed.
In truth, there have been some positive uses for the service such as chronicling upheaval in Iran or giving us the first photos of a water landing in the Hudson, but, by and large, I'm still not a fan and won't be joining soon. I've barely mastered texting (though I do NOT use abbreviations by choice), and I'm comfortable blogging in order to keep my writing skills working at capacity. (sad that THIS is an example of capacity, isn't it?)
Besides, I can never say anything in just 140 characters!
CUL8R

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