{"id":18062,"date":"2009-08-19T08:20:11","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T15:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drjimtaylor.com\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2009-08-19T08:20:11","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T15:20:11","slug":"psychology-of-technology-twitter-attack-crisis-of-disconnectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/psychology-of-technology-twitter-attack-crisis-of-disconnectivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology: Twitter Attack: Crisis of Disconnectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> Normal   0               false   false   false      EN-US   X-NONE   X-NONE                                                     MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <\/xml><![endif]--><!--  --><!--[if gte mso 10]> <mce:style><!   \/* Style Definitions *\/  table.MsoNormalTable \t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\"; \tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; \tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0; \tmso-style-noshow:yes; \tmso-style-priority:99; \tmso-style-qformat:yes; \tmso-style-parent:\"\"; \tmso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; \tmso-para-margin:0in; \tmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; \tmso-pagination:widow-orphan; \tfont-size:11.0pt; \tfont-family:\"Calibri\",\"sans-serif\"; \tmso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; \tmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; \tmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"; \tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; \tmso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; \tmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; \tmso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"; \tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} --> <!--[endif]--><\/p>\n<p>Unless you&#8217;ve been living under a rock lately, you&#8217;ve heard that Twitter was <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/14514\/ddos_attacks_hit_twitter_facebook\">the victim of a cyberattac<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/anxiety.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-104 alignright\" title=\"anxiety\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/anxiety.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/14514\/ddos_attacks_hit_twitter_facebook\">k<\/a> causing the popular social media <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/14514\/ddos_attacks_hit_twitter_facebook\">to shut down for two hours last week<\/a>. Well, if you live in the Land of Twitter you would have thought that it was 9\/11 all over again. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/TECH\/08\/07\/twitter.attack.reaction\/index.html\">CNN.com<\/a> quoted one Twitter user as saying, &#8220;I was pretty upset, actually. It feels like a lifeline for me.&#8221; &#8221; It&#8217;s like my heart was gone&#8221; and &#8220;I felt so empty inside,&#8221; came from several other Tweeters. &#8220;Naked&#8221; and &#8220;jittery&#8221; were also used to describe how Tweeters felt during the blackout.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of my post, please visit my blog <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/14526\/twitter_attack_crisis_of_disconnectivity\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you&#8217;ve been living under a rock lately, you&#8217;ve heard that Twitter was the victim of a cyberattack causing the popular social media to shut down for two hours last week. Well, if you live in the Land of Twitter you would have thought that it was 9\/11 all over again. CNN.com quoted one Twitter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1526],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}