Funny story: The day Scott Hanselman DOS:ed my blog

Today something amusing happened. It was proved that Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) has a superpower. He has powers over computers in the form that he can do DOS attacks just by posting a link to a small site (like mine) on Twitter.

This is the story:

Scott blogged a post about Bing! saying among other things that he’d:

use Bing for the whole month of June and see how it goes

I replied with my post:

Using Bing! for a month – I’ll take you up on that Scott Hanselman.

When Scott saw it he was “kind” enough to mention it on Twitter:

Cool. There's ONE! ;) Try Bing for a Month. http://bit.ly/11lrXJ.

Just a few minutes later he retweeted this tweet:

R @pmaroun There's something wrong with that dude's blog.

With the retort

Apparently if I post a link to something (like a small blog) it'll take the site down. Hm.

And here’s another reply

@LyalinDotCom Yes, apparently the blog was crushed. Should be up soon.

I just thought this was so funny I had to document it for myself for future reference.

Apparently Sott has similar issues as Spiderman:

With great powers comes great responsibility.

Keep up the good work Scott – thanks for the mention! I mean it! ;~)

Cheers,

M.

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posted @ Wednesday, June 03, 2009 10:28 PM

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# re: Funny story: The day Scott Hanselman DOS:ed my blog

Left by Graham at 6/4/2009 2:56 AM
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Classic. :)

# re: Funny story: The day Scott Hanselman DOS:ed my blog

Left by Torkel at 6/4/2009 9:20 AM
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Well there is the well known slashdot effect (to be slashdottet), now here we have the hanselman effect =hanselmaned? sound dirty :)

# Bing serves more information on your search results

Left by Techie.notepad at 6/24/2009 9:45 AM
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Bing serves more information on your search results

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