Twitter snag tied to attack on Georgian blog - washingtonpost.com

A politically motivated cyber attack against a single blogger in the former Soviet republic of Georgia is being blamed for a Thursday outage that left millions worldwide unable to access their personal Facebook and Twitter Web pages.

The attacks continued to affect Twitter service on Friday for some users of the popular microblogging site, after completely shutting down the site for hours the previous day. Facebook fared better; service returned to normal on Friday for its 200 million users...