Twitter suffers sustained outage in hacker attack

One security professional said the group probably used a DDoS-for-hire site to launch an attack against Twitter on Tuesday, but downplayed the likelihood the group was solely responsible for bringing down the social media network.

"It was mere coincidence," the security professional said. "The backend of Twitter is having issues, which is unrelated to the very small attack."

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Amusing, but poignant: We go to Twitter when something is down or an earthquake happens, but where do we go when Twitter itself is down?