Apparently, Twitter recognizes it didn't communicate as well as it could have with its external developers. On Friday afternoon, a Twitter official named Ryan Sarver for the slight in a discussion forum for Twitter developers.

"In order for us to defend from the attack we have had to put a number of services in place and we know that some of you have gotten caught in the crossfire. Please know we are as frustrated as you are and wish there was more we could have communicated along the way," wrote Sarver, a member of the Twitter application development platform team.