Iran is still not done with Twitter

Twitter was the target of a cyberattack on Thursday. The service appeared to be functioning normally on Friday morning.

Mashable, a leading technology blog, attributed the outage to a malicious attack from a group claiming to be the “Iranian Cyber Army,” which replaced Twitter’s logos and text with its own imagery.

Twitter has not yet confirmed this report.

Not long ago, service outages and interruptions on Twitter were frequent enough that the cutesy graphic of a whale being carried by a flock of birds that appeared when the site was down earned the nickname “Fail Whale” by users.

Ironically, Twitter was one of the few mediums that was instrumental in the country during protests against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad earlier this year.

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