Hard to believe that millions of users depends on these sites to get through their daily lives. It's like going back to the dark ages and seems like the end of the world to those fanatics. Users have complained that they feel like they where cut-off from their friends and family. Well ever heard of the good old email? or what about picking up the phone?For Twitter's approximately 30 million users, life — even a few hours — without the popular service meant no tweeting about breaking news, work or the fact that Twitter was down.Social networks Twitter, Facebook and LiveJournal on Thursday morning were overwhelmed by denial-of-service attacks disrupting access to more than 300 million users. Botnets — thousands of infected home and workplace PCs — flooded the websites with nuisance requests, thus cutting off access to anyone else.
Too bad Paula Abdul picked the wrong day to quit American Idol or Sotomayor being confirmed as the first Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
Call this disruptive technology.
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