{"id":183998,"date":"2016-10-21T19:46:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T17:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=183998"},"modified":"2016-10-21T19:52:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T17:52:12","slug":"twitter-is-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/183998-twitter-is-down.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter is down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is down for many South African users, following reports of a massive DDoS attack in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter was not accessible via desktop browser and TweetDeck, and the smartphone application would not refresh at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/downdetector.co.za\/status\/twitter\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Downdetector.co.za<\/strong><\/a> showed multiple reports of Twitter being down since just before 19:00 SA time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/2016\/10\/21\/cyber-attack-takes-down-east-coast-netflix-spotify-twitter\/92507806\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>USA Today reported<\/strong><\/a> that multiple waves on online attacks against DNS services in the US have left multiple sites down, including Twitter and Netflix.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Twitter-down.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-184000\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Twitter-down.jpg\" alt=\"twitter-down\" width=\"672\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Twitter-down.jpg 672w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Twitter-down-640x428.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Twitter-down-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/183732-no-buyer-for-twitter-leaves-it-with-difficult-choices.html\">No buyer for Twitter leaves it with difficult choices<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is down for many South African users, following reports of a massive DDoS attack in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,405],"class_list":["post-183998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184002,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183998\/revisions\/184002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}