Like many others, I woke up yesterday morning to find Twitter down. While I was trying to check Twitter, my wife was trying to get at her Facebook page and was surprised at how slow it was. “The internet is slow!” she exclaimed. A few minutes later I caught the report on the fact that Twitter had experienced a denial of service attack. Based on today’s reports, it appears that the denial of service attack was a Russian attack on a Georgian citizen who had made politically charged comments about the Russo-Georgian conflict last year. Organizations around the world see social media as the future of customer growth and they are spending large sums of money on very expensive people to advance their social web marketing agendas, and therein lies the risk…

Tags: Facebook, MySpace, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter, Web Security