The social networkig world slowly ground to a halt today when both Facebook and Twitter stopped working. Both sites slowed to a crawl during the day presenting users with a miriad of technical errors and connection issues.

Twitter confirmed this afternoon that their site was hit by a Denial-of-Service attack resulting in a complete collapse of their servers. Essentially a DOS attack overloads a server with false hits, overwhelming it and causing it to shit down. Facebook have yet to comment on their service issues but one should imagine that they were facing similar attacks most likely from the same individual.

This must have been one rather anti-social hacker, not that one would suppose the hacking community comprises the most outgoing and convivial bunch of peeps.