She talks about a recent horror show scenario on Twitter which lead to one of the scariest experiences in her life. Molly explains why she loves Twitter and how she used it to sting Bill Maher for being a bully. In our first episode, author and journalist and superstar Tweeter Molly Jong-Fast sits down with Gabe to tell him what it felt like to do battle with Elon Musk out on the timeline. Presented by Literary Hub and Best Case Studios. Then Gabe and the guest use that tweet as an entry point into a conversation designed to illuminate the writer’s heart and mind. The guest reads one of those tweets out loud. Each week, Gabe Hudson welcomes one of his favorite writers and pulls four of their tweets. You have just now entered the Twitterverse. A dimension of tweets and the writers who send them. SoundCloud, Shopify, Reddit, Airbnb, GitHub, and Vox Media were also reportedly affected, depending on a user’s location, according to Tech Crunch.You’re tuning into another dimension. Somewhat ironically, Dyn’s managed DNS infrastructure is supposed to help clients deal with DDoS attacks. ET, Dyn finally beat back the attack, allowing East Coasters to complain on Twitter about Twitter being down. Updates will be posted as information becomes available.”Īround 9:40 a.m. Some customers may experience increased DNS query latency and delayed zone propagation during this time. Google and Facebook, it should be noted, were unaffected.ĭyn posted the following to its website: “Starting at 11:10 UTC on October 21st-Friday 2016 we began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure. Long-haul Internet provider Level3 showed a mass of red on its outage map, centered on the East Coast megalopolis. Spotify and Twitter users and many websites using Amazon Web Services suddenly stopped working. This particular attack began at around 7 a.m.
DDoS attacks on these servers make it impossible for real people to access them - and therefore the site you’re trying to get to - by flooding them with fake traffic, making them unavailable. Not quite, though the reality was only slightly less disconcerting: A massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against one of the major domain name server (DNS) hosts, Dyn, crippled a large number of websites and web-based applications, including those listed above and a plethora of others.ĭNS hosts help you reach the page you’re trying to access when you type it into your browser or click on a link - they reconcile the people-language used with the IP address of your destination. “Are the Russians coming to shut everything down?” you thought, wondering if you had stocked up on enough canned goods to last you through a nuclear winter. This morning on the East Coast, when you went to listen to your favorite Spotify playlist, you were probably met with some kind of error.
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