Comments on: 4chan may be behind attack on Twitter

The micro-blogging site's trending-topics feature experiences an attack from Internet message boards.

[missionmom1]

tm_anon....
what's with using the word retarded? I'm not sure but I didn't think seventh graders actually commented on this site.

[Sam Papelbon]

the word 'retard' is a verb which means to slow. using it as a noun would refer to a person who is slow, typically in the mental area. it does not specifically apply to those with genetic learning disabilities. it used to be used for them, but they have since rejected the term and chose more accurate descriptions. the case of the word 'retard' is very similar to that of 'dumb', which had been used to describe someone who could not talk. today, nobody considers it as being offensive to people who are mute, as they have long since rejected the term 'dumb' and started using new terms. i suspect the same thing will happen with the word 'gay' as well.

[codynews]

The only reason for a site to do something like this would be FOR PUBLICITY! So I don't think site #1 would blame site #2 just for the heck of it.

I don't know anything about the cheese ball sites mentioned ("/b/"?) but it seems they're full of losers trying to get attention. I have to assume the "it wasn't us it was them!" is just part of that effort.

Cody

[RedGiant947]

No, 4chan blames it as a joke. It's not for publicity at all. They do it because they're bored and want to get a reaction out of idiots who don't know what's going on. /b/ is the board on 4chan that is responsible for this. Yes we are losers, but we don't care if you think it was us. Way to make unsubstantiated ultraopiniated claims based off of an article though, I doubt /b/ers would be stupid enough to do that.

[codynews]

RedG: Again, I have never been to "4chan" or /b/ or whatever so don't know enough and don't care enough to comment but based on the comments here -- including yours -- I think my reply was right on.

[RedGiant947]

Wow what kind of tool admits he doesn't know enough about the topic, yet still makes completely unsubstantiated claims without knowing at all what he's talking about? At least you're honest pal. Cheese ball sites? /b/ is more popular than CNet.

[Zeldfor]

Christ you're an idiot and RedGiant is completely right. How dare you reply to this if you quote "dont know enough and dont care enough" to even make a substantial comment?? Go read about something you do know about that way maybe someone will care what you have to say. As for your comment, /b/ does nothing for publicity. They do it for the lulz. Plain and simple.

[unknown unknown]

If it is indeed 4chan, this article is giving them exactly what they want. /b/ is all about the lulz and the attention.

[WhisperSecrets]

This is the Wiki where they plan at least some of their Raids ---->> insurgen.info/wiki/Main_Page
They don't want this exposed. The hate people who link to it! I'm already a target so I don't care.

[Zeldfor]

"already a target"??? What the ****? Dont you people understand that 4chan is filled with nerds that hide behind their computer??!! You're not a target, you tool! They don't give two ***** about you.

[networkgod]

Sad. You make the trending topic for a few minutes. big deal. Everybody forgets about it the moment the trend dissapears.

The admin of 4chan has done a great job brainwashing the teenagers of 4chan to do his dirty deeds for him. Obviously it was a scheme to get more traffic and press for his website through twitter.

[JohnSugent]

The admin of 4chan has clearly stated in the rules not to do it. Look at it this way, you put thousands of bored web browsers alone together on a forum where they post anonymously and a few will do bad things. Even if you put a few thousand together in real life the bad stuff would happen if it were on a daily basis which this is. Most these stunts are perptrated by well written scripts (yes the writers are well educated on this stuff but waste time doing dumb deeds) which can skip those text codes and do hundreds of actions a minute. So if only 5 people did it picture about a 1000 actions such as votes a minute, which is sufficent in a lot of the systems. So it's not really 4chan responsible. It's the few who did it that are. Most do it because they want to see the reaction of people, or **** some people off. The site is so overloaded and has been far before this news story the site goes down for a few minutes every 14 min. It's hard for an admin to see all the threads since theres so many posts at all times ect. The site has around 20 boards, with thousands of threads, and 10's of thousands (if not 100's) at the same time. Due to abuse by almost all previous admins, the site is lacking some admins to completely moderate it (why would someone want to watch a site for free? why not do something funny here and there to the users is the logic why i see its abused). The site uses a report feature so if something violates the rules and a few people report it it gets taken down. Most dont care enough to report incidents such as this so they go unnoticed. Many years ago there was one person who made bomb threats on the site towards nfl games. He was arrested after the admin gave his information to the fbi. The thing is news stories blamed the site itself not the person which is the same issue here. The admin rarely ever posts because the main board is meant to be completely random and as original as possible so he tries to stay aside as long as the few rules are followed (basically anything illegal).

[Zeldfor]

Moot has no control over what the people that frequent his website do. He hires people to be administrators and to ban people from the site but there is NO possible way for him to keep them from doing things outside of the website. Again, ignorant people need to stop talking about things that they do not understand. If you've never been to the website or know NOTHING about the site, STOP COMMENTING.

[networkgod]

Oh yea and I like how the users here who deny it was 4chan registered to cnet today when the spam started lmao.

[Zeldfor]

Again, just /b/**** being just that.

[cp256]

Wow. Now everyone make backwards Ls with your right index fingers and thumbs. Now hold them up to your foreheads.

[Zeldfor]

"The first letters of the top 21 names spell out "marblecake, also the game" The top 21 names meaning the top 21 names from the 100 most influential people. Yeah 4chan is so unorganized that they were able to do this perfectly. Sounds unorganized to me doesnt it to you too?

[Zeldfor]

Also, all of you just lost the game.

[Zeldfor]

Also, I love 4chan. Love. I'm an old ***. I remember the good ole days before 4chan was in the news and people were closing the curtains cause it would keep 4chan out.

/b/ 4evar

[jg111093]

4chan couldn't have done it, it's been too preoccupied with spam. plus, there was no posts planning this. I mean, I saw posts for youtube porn day like 2 weeks in advance.

[gidstelios]

These actions are totally unacceptable and are widely known as CYBERCRIME. Users have to be more careful when they address issues like this because the WWW is based on the user's reliability and general use of Netiquette. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette) Internet should be a better place for everyone and not a sanctuary of were terror and harassment reign. (I put too much emotion in the last sentence but you got the meaning of better WWW.)

[Kainchild]

The only problem is if an FBI investigation was being done on whoever individual(s) was and/or were behind which ever act(s). Then said individual(s) from the FBI could verify the actual source. The problem here is these sites use the ever powerful excuse, "We were just kidding with what we said, it was a lie and a joke" One of these days the Feds will play the ultimate joke on these people if they actual are in fact up to no good.

[dkgshiz100]

Dang, glad I actually have something useful to do with my free time.

[Glitch_64]

Damn eBalm's World!! always causing problems.

[AnonymousAnonymous]

this article is silly in that it blames an image board for the various attacks performed by users of that board. I've never read anything about the sight attacking anybody. 4chan is not behind the attack, if it had been behind any of the alleged attacks, then it would not exist anymore due to it's illegal activities. Twitter is being attacked by people, don't blame they're mode of communication.

[Grimm191]

Please take note the phrase "Sponsored by Ebaum's World" in the margins. Simply because the posting shares some of our memes, those memes have been passed around to the point that they are antiquity, and therefore are not exclusive to the Chans. Ebaumsworld has had a long history of stealing ideas, so I'm really not surprised that they jacked some of our memes. Simply because it looks like us doesn't mean it was us. We have standards, we're not going to go raiding random websites, even annoying ones like Twitter, and I'd have to say that the MO of how the raid would be performed is not in our realm. Wasn't us.

[enzofreak550]

/b/ wasn't behind the attacks.
Everyone on cnet is stupid. It was /i/, or the invasion faction of anonymous.

/b/ is full of drooling morons who are obsessed with child porn.
/i/ is full of competent anons who are obsessed with wreaking havoc on the internet.

/b/ does NOTHING but distribute child porn and act like general retards. ALWAYS remember that.

[ThePath]

Will everyone stop talking about Twitter.....thats it Ive had to kill their mascot:

http://www.effutio.com/chatter/will-everyone-stop-talking-about-twitter/

[Milkcan_Zero]

Just as a heads-up, with regards to the Time Magazine award, a) they allowed open voting, basically allowing people to vote as often as they wanted and b) at the end of the day, while there were a few people trying to rig the vote, they confirmed at the end that there was no misconduct. Indeed, the biggest vote-rigging came from voters for a politician, something you should probably have checked up on. Either way, hardly anything that could even remotely be considered 'hacking'.

Secondly, organising the online equivalent of a fratboy prank counts as an 'attack' these days? Really? Now that alone reeks of editorializing and scaremongering, especially since Twitter did recently suffer a DDoS attack. If you're trying to equate the spamming of an idiotic trend with a directed attack against the site, then I'd question your reasons for doing so, beyond either trying to drum up a panic or filling in a slow news day.

Sorry, CNet, but this reeks of yellow journalism. I would expect better from a site such as this.