The distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks that knocked out Twitter for hours and affected other sites like Facebook, Google’s Blogger, and LiveJournal on Thursday continued all day Friday and may persist throughout the weekend.

In its latest update, posted to a discussion forum of its third-party developers at 11 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time on Friday, Twitter reports it’s still fighting the attacks.

“The DDoS attack is still ongoing, and the intensity has not decreased at all,” wrote Chad Etzel, from Twitter’s application development platform support team.

This means that Twitter will maintain a set of defensive measures that have allowed it to keep the site up but that also have affected the interaction of third-party applications with the site via its API (application programming interface). “At this point, removing any of those defenses is not an option,” Etzel wrote.

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