Twitter is being messed with. Is it the work of the Syrian Electronic Army?

[blogslut]

http://gizmodo.com/syrian-electronic-army-claims-to-have-taken-over-twitte-1210239266

The Syrian Electronic Army claims it's taken over Twitter's domain registration. Indeed, several public Whois listings show [e-mail] as the contact information for Twitter.com. Many Twitter users say they're experiencing problems with the service. We've reached out to Twitter, and the company responded that they're "looking into it."

Here's the tweet that alerted the world that something was odd.



NYTimes.com went dark for the second time in a month on Tuesday afternoon, but that doesn't mean the newspaper will stop publishing. Bypassing… Read…

Earlier today, SEA (or someone) took over the NYTimes' domain...

Updates and more at the link.

I know my twitter online account page looks just as sparse as the screenshots from the Gizmodo article. I can't even log out of twitter.

[jberryhill]

1. Appears to be incorrect.

WHOIS is showing a last "Updated Date: 12-apr-2013" on the domain.

[blogslut]

2. Okay

Some are saying it depends on which WHOIS record you're looking at, as some update faster than other.

Just the same, I have two twitter accounts and they're both acting weird on different browsers. Plus the avatars of the people I'm following show up as question marks on my tweetdeck desktop software.

Something's going on. Can't say who or what but I can't even log out of twitter on either account from their online pages.

[jberryhill]

6. That's why I said "appears"

Melbourne IT could have manually corrected by the time I saw it, but I checked the Melbourne IT Port 43 WHOIS, which is authoritative for the domain.

[blogslut]

7. okay

cool

[Worried senior]

3. I'm having problems too

I have been for a few days and now it can't log on, then it can't update and email messages I get from other tweets cannot be responded to.

[mwooldri]

4. DNS poisoning?

The DNS service still has its vulnerabilities, and someone who has the right timing and access could put in a fake record... and DNS registries are fed invalid information. Whois may give a wrong answer, or a query will give an incorrect ip address.

Good news is that it's found out quickly and is fixed.

[blogslut]

5. Twitter's response:

Posted within the Gizmodo article linked in my OP

At 20:49 UTC, our DNS provider experienced an issue in which it appears DNS records for various organizations were modified, including one of Twitter’s domains used for image serving, twimg.com. Viewing of images and photos was sporadically impacted. By 22:29 UTC, the original domain record for twimg.com was restored. No Twitter user information was affected by this incident.