From Twitter: “We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly.”
Hackers commonly use a denial of service attack to cause computers to slow down or crash.  Hackers launch the attacks by taking over thousands of everyday PCs that don’t have adequate anti-virus and other protections installed. Then they redirect all that computing power toward the targeted computer in hopes of overwhelming it. Though there is some speculation, it’s too early to tell if Carla Spartos from the NYPost has anything to do with this Twitter outage.

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