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Twitter, Spotify and Netflix Among Websites Downed in Massive Internet Outage
If you had trouble reading your Twitter timeline or listening to your favorite Spotify playlist Friday morning, you are not alone. Major sites like Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, Netflix and Etsy were down Friday morning after hackers unleashed a major distributed denial of service, or DDOS, attack on servers at Dyn, a major DNS host. Domain…