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Twitter's servers were hit Aug. eleven with another distributed denial-of-service attack, sending the microblogging support crashing down.

Around 3 p.m. EDT, Twitter posted an updated to its status blog stating that it was experiencing a site outage and was examining the nature of the assault. Later, Alex Payne, platform lead at Twitter,Office 2007 Download, posted on a bulletin board that the Website was undergoing yet another wave of DDoS (distributed denial of support) attacks.

"Expect periodic slowness and errors until the attack passes or is countered by our operations team and hosting provider," Payne wrote. "Updates will be provided as we get them."

The situation follows a DDoS attack Aug. 6 that knocked out Twitter and affected numerous other sites,Office 2010 Download, including Facebook,Office Professional Plus 2010, LiveJounal and YouTube. In that case, some security researchers believe the DDoS attack was part of an effort to silence a pro-Georgian blogger with an act of hacktivism. The attack affected Twitter for several hours.

The Aug. 11 attack subsided relatively quickly. But, according to Payne, it picked up again later in the day.

"We're trying to work with [Twitter's support provider] to ensure minimal impact to the API, but in the near term there may be issues with OAuth and the Streaming API ," Payne wrote on the bulletin board. "This is a bit of a juggling act,Office 2010 Professional Plus, as we're trying to coordinate our team,Office 2007, the operations team, our services provider's staff and specialists that they've
brought in for this issue."

The services appears to be functioning at the moment.