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The FINANCIAL -- Twitter Account of Zviad Pochkhua , The FINANCIAL Editor get suspended by unknown reasons newspaper announced today. On Friday another account of Georgian blogger was suspended. The attacks may have been related to the ongoing political conflict between Russia and Georgia, Associated Press quoted Bill Woodcock, research director of the San Francisco-based Packet Clearing House, a nonprofit that tracks Internet traffic. "They started with hackers using a botnet to send a flurry of spam e-mail messages that contained links to pages on Twitter, Facebook and other sites written by a single pro-Abkhazia activist, according to Bill Woodcock, research director of the San Francisco-based Packet Clearing House, a nonprofit that tracks Internet traffic".
Pochkhua, born in Sukhumi, Georgia was in focus of the Russian Federal Intelligence Service since 2001 as he was assisting Chechen political leaders to publish interviews in local and international media that was viewed by Russian officials as "anti-Russian activity". These charges Pochkhua flatly denied. Newspaper announced that interviewing opposition leaders is consistent with the freedom of speech standards because "Chechen militants, like everybody else, have a right to express their views, Pochkhua says". Associated Press said hackers on Thursday shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter for hours, while Facebook experienced intermittent access problems. Twitter said it suffered a denial-of-service attack, in which hackers command scores of computers toward a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from getting through.
Russia recognized as independent the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia after a brief war with Georgia a year ago.
According to comScore, Twitter had 20.1 million unique visitors in the United States in June, some 34 times the 593,000 a year earlier.
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