[Mickey2009]

but it look like twitter has been hacked.

Its last trending topic was Twitter Zombie

TwitterTwitter is currently experiencing extended downtime: a 30 minute outage that’s one of the longest in recent months. Back in 2007 and 2008, Twitter downtime was relatively frequent: this year the site has been far more stable and its early outages have been largely forgotten.

In the last 5 minutes, Twitter has acknowledged the downtime on its status blog, but adds that it’s unsure of the cause:

Site is down. We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly.

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[Mickey2009]

Twitter Update:

We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly

[Mickey2009]

Update: the site is back up, but we are continuing to defend against and recover from this attack.