Update: It looks like twitter is a lot healthier, it raised from 20 urls/sec to 40 at once on Sunday around 8.30PM GMT+2

Twitter healthier ?

We track the rates of every incoming tweets that contains a URL for our MicroPlaza service. Yesterday we saw in real-time a dramatic drop from a rate close to 50 tweets a second to 0/sec at around 5.31pm GMT+2. It stayed like that for at least 27 minutes. Then it went back but to a lower rate with some big drops.

Tweets with URL rates while twitter was DDoS

Twitter is now on track with a healthy growth in the tweets rates since the bigg drop at 9am GMT+2 (it is at around 30 tweets a second that contains a URL at the time of this post)

Tweets with URL rates after the Twitter DDoS