Twitter, Facebook fend off DoS attacks

The service continued to be impacted Thursday afternoon, reaching a peak of 150 Mbps, about half of its normal peak for that time of day, according to Arbor.

"As we recover, users will experience some longer load times and slowness," Twitter stated on its status blog . "This includes timeouts to API clients. We're working to get back to 100% as quickly as we can."

Users also complained of issues accessing Facebook. The service confirmed midday on Thursday that, it too, had suffered a denial-of-service attack.

"You may have had trouble accessing Facebook earlier today because of network issues related to an apparent distributed denial-of-service attack," the social network stated on its own Facebook page . "We have restored full access for most people. We'll keep monitoring the situation to make sure you have the reliable experience you expect from us."

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