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If you couldn’t get into your Twitter account yesterday, you weren’t alone. A massive denial-of-service attack by unknown hackers knocked out the popular micro-blogging site for some 45 million users. Children’s book author Laurel Snyder, who normally sends 50 tweets a day, tells us how she survived.

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