Twitter's servers ended up hit Aug. 11 with an additional distributed denial-of-service assault,
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Around 3 p.m. EDT,
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"Expect periodic slowness and errors until the assault passes or is countered by our operations team and hosting provider," Payne wrote. "Updates will be provided as we get them."
The situation follows a DDoS assault Aug. 6 that knocked out Twitter and affected numerous other sites,
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The Aug. eleven assault subsided relatively quickly. But, according to Payne, it picked up again later in the day.
"We're trying to work with [Twitter's support provider] to ensure minimal impact to the API, but in the near term there may be issues with OAuth and the Streaming API ," Payne wrote on the bulletin board. "This is a bit of a juggling act,
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The services appears to be functioning at the moment.