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Twitter users were unable to "tweet" today after the social networking site became the victim of an attack.

A message posted on the Twitter blog said the short messaging site was the target of a "denial of service attack".

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source: Press Association

image: Fair Use/Screengrab: TWITTER CRASHES....Hackers to Blame?

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Hackers bedevil Facebook and Twitter....

Hackers have knocked wildly popular micro-blogging site Twitter offline for several hours and caused performance stumbles at hot social-networking service Facebook.

Twitter was down for more than two hours on Thursday before engineers at the California firm were able to get it back online with a warning at the website that "we are continuing to defend against and recover from this attack."

"On this otherwise happy Thursday morning, Twitter is the target of a denial-of-service attack," Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in an official company blog.

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source: AFP

image: Fair Use/a.abcnews.com: TWITTER/FACEBOOK....hack attack

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