I think the genius that is The Onion has a reply for you….
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/twitter_creator_on_iran_i
Twitter Creator On Iran: ‘I Never Intended For Twitter To Be Useful’
June 24, 2009 | Issue 45•26
SAN FRANCISCO—Creator Jack Dorsey was shocked and saddened this week after learning that his social networking device, Twitter, was being used to disseminate pertinent and timely information during the recent civil unrest in Iran. “Twitter was intended to be a way for vacant, self-absorbed egotists to share their most banal and idiotic thoughts with anyone pathetic enough to read them,” said a visibly confused Dorsey, claiming that Twitter is at its most powerful when it makes an already attention-starved populace even more needy for constant affirmation. “When I heard how Iranians were using my beloved creation for their own means—such as organizing a political movement and informing the outside world of the actions of a repressive regime—I couldn’t believe they’d ruined something so beautiful, simple, and absolutely pointless.” Dorsey said he is already working on a new website that will be so mind-numbingly useless that Iranians will not even be able to figure out how to operate it.
Looks like our beloved Twitter is being bombarded with a DDoS attack. DDoS is a distributed denial of service attack which is pretty easy to pull off and difficult to defend against for websites that are used by so many users. It essentially floods Twitters bandwidth with fake requests until it cannot handle any valid requests.
