online assault

Twitter: "You Are Not a Target Until You Become Popular"

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 13, 2009 at 9:01 am PT

Biz Stone, one of the co-founders of Twitter, called the service’s recent attacks a sign of its significance in a PBS interview that airs Thursday. “You are not a target until you become popular,” he said, after PBS’s Tavis Smiley commented that the denial-of-service attacks were a “backhanded compliment.”