i knew something was up

i tried to post a tweet all afternoon and couldn't. i did indeed post something to facebook, BUT IT WASN'T EASY. i kept getting error messages but i persisted and it finally worked.

oh, i tweet as

@aroseisarose


Online Attack Silences Twitter for Much of Day
By JENNA WORTHAM
Twitter, the popular microblogging site, was out of service much of the day Thursday as it worked to defend itself against a Web attack, but service appeared to have been restored by late evening.

Many of Twitter’s 45 million legitimate visitors were unable to use the service for hours. Analysts characterized the disruption as a denial-of-service attack, in which hackers overwhelm a Web site by sending it a deluge of junk requests, and one suggested the attack might have originated in Russia or Georgia.

Facebook and Google fended off similar attacks on Thursday.

Most computer security analysts did not cite a specific source of the attack on Twitter.........