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On Mar 24, 2010, at 7:40 AM, tispratik wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know the reason for the vulnerability in Twitter when a
> lot of DOS attacks were made?
> Were they due to the design of the application or the server where
> they hosted got attacked?

It was a widely publicized distributed denial of service attack.
Thousands of zombie machines were used to connect to Twitter,
eventually using up all available resources. No application design
decision could have defended against this, only more machines.

-j

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