Twitter was down today, so there's a couple of newspapers reporting the
incident. On the status twitter page we can see that it was a DDoS
(Distributed Denial of Service), but there's no more references (at the
time I write this article) from where it came and why.

Like I said, some reporters, like those in the british Guardian post an
article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/06/twitter-data-computer-security

But those in Portugal are smarter, they invent and thing for themselves:
http://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/index.php?template=SHOWNEWS&id=381522

As you might notice, the portuguese article is a copy from the guardian,
which was imprecise and the local clueless reporter just turn it worse.
Calling DDoS a virus, saying that the attack was for London and putting
the information leak paragraph out of any context, it just reveals how bad
are tech reporters here.

First they copy other tabloids, in a wrong way, then they invent stuff and
publish as a news. Honestly, there's no good tech reporter in portugal.
period. and I can't accept it.