If you are a fan of twitter, like we are (@parkerwhite) then you may have noticed that the popular online service was having some major issues this morning.  It was later revealed that this was the result of a DDoS attack.

Oddly enough our web host was also hit by a DDoS atack this morning which was causing some loading issues on our website.  Fortunately this was quickly resolved.  Once it was resolved, I was asked what happened, and when I explained that our server had been hit with a DDoS attack, it was received with blank looks.

A Distribute Denial of Service attack I explained.  Still nothing.  How do I best explain what this is?

Well fortunately I don’t have to; instead I can direct you to the amazing writers at Mashable who have put together a great post explaining what this attack is and how it affected twitter.  You can read more about it here:

http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-outage/