As you might all know, last week was not a very pleasant one for regular Twitter users. The site was hit by a massive DDoS att which made sure the site went down for a couple of hours. It did come back up though. However, Twitter just doesn't "feel" the same ever since it's been back up.
In fact, on Saturday, people were still complaining about the site being extremely slow. While there were some reports of the attack continuing many of the issues seems to have been caused by Twitter's own steps to mitigate the problems. Users hooked on to third party tools for updating and reading tweets seem to be particularly hit as Twitter's measures to "lessen" the impact of the attacks meant that many of these programs were unable to access Twitter's API (Application Programming Interface).
As for the attack, it seems to have been a politically motivated one where the attacker wanted to silence a user from Georgia who was using popular social networking sites as a base to voice his issues. While the intention might have been to "silence" one user, it has resulted in the entire website being rendered unusable.
Now that the weekend has passed, Twitter still seems to be slow for the occasional user. It seems either Twitter is upgrading its defense mechanism or the attack has left some kind of a dent that Twitter is still trying to fix. Anyway, it seems the most affected users still seem to be users who are dependent on third party twitter clients or people using SMS for tweeting their updates. On the other hand, all the other sites that too had faced the attacks seem to be back on their feet.
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