Big Brother to the rescue: Google helped Twitter fend off attacks
Posted by andreaitis on August 12, 2009
Verrrry eeenteresting.
Twitter cofounder Biz Stone will appear on the Tavis Smiley show tomorrow night. About 45 seconds into a preview clip from the interview, Biz says that during the most recent denial-of-service attacks on Twitter, the startup learned a lot about how to deal with such attacks in the future by working “with folks from Google.”
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There’s been much speculation to date about a Google-Twitter union. That will only increase now that Facebook is aligned with Friendfeed. Was Google simply showing cyber-citizen goodwill by helping Twitter fight off the DoS attack, or is this a hint at what’s to come?
Either way, you might want to brush up on ‘It’s a Small World After All.’ And replace ‘Small’ with ‘Google.’

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