Twusher or Twiorger

Twusher / Twiorger: The rather unfortunate collision between Twitter and Russia or Georgia. (1) The attempt to shut down pro-Georgian tweets in retaliation over the conflict earlier last year. (2) The (malicious) shut-down of any social networking service, internet service, website or other digital media in retaliation for politically-charged postings.

References: Web attack blogger blames Russia, Twitter outage clamps tweets, cause 'unknown', Statement from Twitter on denial of service attack, Twacker, Twither, Attacks on single blogger knocked out Twitter , Twitter hack gets everyone's attention and Denial-of-Service Attack.



Revised / Updated: Sunday, August 9, 2009








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