How Twitter DDoS’d our Website 61 times in Past 2 days!!

As soon our Blog feed pushes updates to Twitter, An Army Bots Hit the Website. Like a Pack of Wolves Upon the Scent of Blood!

We just spent our entire Sunday digging up server logs and conducting a post-mortem analysis on why our website (www.trialx.com) kept going down. According to pingdom.com, our site went down 61 times in the past 2 days! Our traffic numbers are very modest – we receive about a few hundred thousand visits per month – [...]

Now You Can Talk to Twitter and Find Clinical Trials on TrialX

Twitter is emerging as a popular method of expression and communication through short updates (or micro-blogging) and has seen rapid growth in the last few months. The service is used by people to “update” what they are doing and apprising them of “what’s happening” by following updates of others. There are estimated 4-6 millions users [...]