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It seems likely to have implications with socio-political attack suffered yesterday from Twitter and other social networks including Facebook.

The hypothesis is advanced on the basis of statements made by a blogger of Georgian nationality, known as Cyxymu (a city of Georgia) and holds several accounts on various web 2.0 sites like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and LiveJournal, which accounts were the target by a few attacks in recent days because of his positions “pro-Western”, as stated by the same Cyxymu.

Are still to understand how they have succeeded in bringing down Twitter for several hours and slow down Facebook, some try to hypothesize a link between an attack of spam and ‘DoS attack yesterday that the botnet network to lead the attack may have been recreated with the invitation, present in many spam email sent to click on a specific link, which when multiplied by the number of users affected by the led to saturate the server.

However, a thesis that seems to have been disproved in these hours by some leaders of the security of Facebook for which remains a mystery although there are the background implications of a “demonstration” that have something to do with the political conflict between Georgia and Russia. Therefore, remains a question mark on this issue.