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		rglullis on Dec 18, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter down; hacked by "Iranian cyber army"? Couldn't the favicon be there just because it was previously cached in the browser?

drusenko on Dec 18, 2009 [–]

Very possibly. But AFAIR IE is the only notoriously favicon caching browser, the rest of them do a good job of updating it often. And the favicon is showing up in multiple screenshots on both FF and Chrome.

riffraff on Dec 18, 2009 | [–]

IIRC twitter images are served from S3, so probably just a different dns?

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