After Twitter, Facebook; Microsoft Xbox Live now down.On Thursday evening, the Microsoft Xbox Live See Xbox. service was unreachable, joining the likes of Twitter A Web site and service that lets users send short text messages from their cellphones to a group of friends. Launched in 2006, Twitter (www.twitter.com) was designed for people to broadcast their current activities and thoughts. and Facebook which also went down this week, crippling millions of its users around the world. Most of North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. was wrapped with darkness, and gamers wanting to connect could not. Some players expect that Microsoft was only performing maintenance, but it seemed to be a more critical issue as its www.xbox.com/networkhelp/ and xbox.com/support are all also out of service. Microsoft hasn't yet issued any report about the incident. Twitter and Facebook also suffered from an outage yesterday which also crippled its millions of users around the world from using the services. Twitter post a message in its blog which read: "Twitter is the target of a denial of service attack An assault on a network that floods it with so many additional requests that regular traffic is either slowed or completely interrupted. Unlike a virus or worm, which can cause severe damage to databases, a denial of service attack interrupts network service for some period. . Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated or·ches·trate tr.v. or·ches·trat·ed, or·ches·trat·ing, or·ches·trates 1. To compose or arrange (music) for performance by an orchestra. 2. to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter for intended customers or users. " As for Facebook, the popular social-networking site did not release any official reason as to why the site is slow and at times, unresponsive. Earlier this week on Monday, sites operated by Gawker Media Gawker Media is an online media company founded and owned by Nick Denton. It is considered to be one of the most visible and successful blog-oriented media companies. As of May 2007, it is the parent company for 15 different weblogs, including Gawker. crashed and it was later believed to be the result of a DDoS attack against The Consumerist blog, which is owned by Consumers Union but whose content is hosted by Gawker Media. |
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