Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Twitter first with the Register.com outage news

Register.com and its domains, constituting a sizable chunk of the Internet, are currently subject to a DNS outage, probably due to a DoS attack. A search on Google News for "register.com outage" returns nothing useful. Neither does a search of Yahoo! News. But Twitter is all over it:



Twitter is not primarily a news search service, in fact you have to look down at the bottom of the Twitter home page to even find the "search" link, but it fulfills that purpose admirably.