Twusher / Twiorger: The rather unfortunate collision between Twitter and Russia or Georgia. (1) The attempt to shut down pro-Georgian tweets in retaliation over the conflict earlier last year. (2) The (malicious) shut-down of any social networking service, internet service, website or other digital media in retaliation for politically-charged postings.
References: Web attack blogger blames Russia, Twitter outage clamps tweets, cause 'unknown', Statement from Twitter on denial of service attack, Twither,and Denial-of-Service Attack.
Stewie: Well, I guess we can expect this blog to suddenly and mysteriously disappear. Brian: No doubt about it. Hey, who can get me a dry martini before we suddenly disa... Stewie: Brian?! What the deuce!? Where did he go? Hmmm, he seems to have disap...
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