Open Source ‘Twitter’ Could Fend Off the Next Twitpocalypse

Open Source ‘Twitter’ Could Fend Off the Next Twitpocalypse | Epicenter | Wired.com: "Last week’s denial-of-service attack that knocked Twitter offline was aimed at one man — a blogger in the former Soviet republic of Georgia called Cyxymu. Nonetheless, it caused the entire Twitter universe to blink out of existence for hours. This struck some detractors of the service as hilarious (how do “these people” complain about Twitter being down if Twitter is down?). But the truth of the matter is that Twitter is an increasingly important lubricant for greasing the wheels of the web."