Twitter was down for about an hour early Friday, and the Iranian Cyber Army claimed that they did it, but many are questioning that confession. Millions of people were unable to tweet for awhile while the site was down. The San Francisco based company status page said that DNS records were temporally compromised.
During the hacking, this message appeared on the Twitter Page: "This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army."
The reason behind the attack is unknown and confusing, especially since Iranian protestors used Twitter this summer to get their story out. Iran’s presidential election was susupected of fraud and protests became bloody. And Twitter became the only source of their story (with videos and photos) because reporters from inside the country were banned from reporting it.
There is an internet rumor circulating that the hacking was done by pranksters who blamed it on the unknown Iranian Cyber Army.
Sources: PC World and Twitter
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I'm sorry but you seem a little off of Iran's politics. The hackers are not from Iranian protesters. They are from pro-government Basijis and as you see they have condemned interfering of US in Iran's internal issues. They believe protests are conducted by the west. Another point in this is that when they can hack twitter.com they could certainly hack a domestic election, which they did.
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