Twitter Goes Down On Eve Of Election Day, A Massive DDoS Attack?!

It's not only your Twitter that is down, it's confirmed everyone around the world has undergone a 30-minute unresponsive servers to the social media platform. The temporary shutdown is rumored to link with a massive DDoS attack on the evening of presidential Election Day! DDoS is a form of cyber-attack that making the network or machine unable to use in the meantime or indefinitely to the users. The attack can be explained in a simple way, it's like being stuck in a traffic jam that making your car stuck and impossible to move forward.

The twitter users said they cannot access the website even by refreshing the application. Through the online service "Is It Down Right Now" when it was confirmed the fluctuation of social media platform Twitter for around 30 minutes. Tweeter users also used Facebook to express their emotions about the non-responding Twitter.

Is this really a cyber attack from Wikileaks? The same whistleblower of Hillary Clinton's releasing the private emails was also down. Last Monday also when WikiLeaks posted that they are under a DDoS attack, suspicious enough it is linked with the latest released of private Democratic emails.

 No malicious is hidden on the 30-minute shutdown source said but cause by BGP routes technical error. When the authorized administrator got the maintenance out of hand it will result in shutdown and unresponsiveness of the website, but mistakes do happen.

The social media platform hasn't confirmed about what happen to lose service, no news from @support or @twitter too. Last October when this DDoS attack also happened to social media platform Twitter with other sites such as Spotify, Reddit, and Amazon.

This early Monday morning when an engineer somehow reconfigured the router and accidentally remove Twitter on the traffic which means no social media platform Twitter has existed - erased.