Twitter down for the third time in less than a week (Updated)

Updated: The site came back up shortly after noon PST and the company is analyzing data to learn more about the attack.

Twitter went down today for the third time in less than a week after suffering from another wave of denial-of-service attacks.

“Expect periodic slowness and errors until the attack passes or is countered by our operations team and hosting provider,” said Alex Payne, the company’s platform lead.

The site was down two days in a row last week because of “geopolitically” motivated attacks, according to co-founder Biz Stone. A denial-of-service attack happens when a malicious party requests a page so many times that it slows or cuts off access for other legitimate users. Facebook also suffered from these attacks last Thursday, when a bot targeted the pages of single Georgian blogger.

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