Twitter has now been down for nearly 3 hours, a denial of service attack has been blamed for the downtime and the Twitter team are still battling to bring the site back online. Twitter services appear to be running again, so if you use an API or desktop Twitter application you should be able to start Tweeting again. We are currently using Tweet Deck with no downtime.

The issue has caused waves all over the internet, Facebook reportedly slowed right down with some users receiving error messages when trying to view there profiles. Other social network displayed error messages as social user’s flooded servers. One report even acknowledged that work productivity was up as a result of the downtime.

The Twitter website is still down and we will keep you informed of the issue as we find out more details.