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Was cyber attack Twitter terror or just kids?
Photo credit: Handout Photo | Twitter logo image.
Twitter, once derided as a frivolous way to tell friends what you are eating and when you're going to bed, has grown up - the hard way.
The cyber-attack that paralyzed the social networking service signaled that it had become big enough to attract the attention of malicious Internet hackers, who may have been motivated by profit.
No one knows for sure who was behind the "denial of service"...
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