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Jim Taylor, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco. He works in performance psychology. See full bio

Psychology of Technology: Twitter Attack: Crisis of Disconnectivity

Twitter attack causes anxiety and panic.

 

Unless you've been living under a rock lately, you've heard that Twitter was the victim of a cyberattack causing the popular social media to shut down for two hours a few weeks ago. Well, if you live in the Land of Twitter you would have thought that it was 9/11 all over again. CNN.com quoted one Twitter user as saying, "I was pretty upset, actually. It feels like a lifeline for me." " It's like my heart was gone" and "I felt so empty inside," came from several other Tweeters. "Naked" and "jittery" were also used to describe how Tweeters felt during the blackout.

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