Via BBC News

High-profile websites including Google, Facebook and Twitter have been targeted by hackers in what is described as a “massively co-ordinated attack”.

Other sites such as the blogging platform Live Journal were also reportedly targeted.

Twitter was taken offline for more than two hours whilst Facebook’s service was “degraded”, according to the firms.

Google said it had defended its sites and was now working with the other firms to investigate the attack. Continue Reading….

Twitter is still experiencing difficulties and I am still unable to access it via my BlackBerry.