Apparently, some guy called Cyxymu is saying that the recent attacks on Facebook and Twitter have been because of him.
Now, far be it from me to call him a liar, but the reasons he gives for thinking that they were targeted at him are a little, well, flimsy. In fact, he only gives one reason why he thinks it was him they were targetting:
An attack of such a scale would cost a huge amount of money. This is why I think that some structures in Russia are behind this.
Never mind that a DDoS attack actually doesn't take all that much money to launch (just a lot of computers infected with a virus - a lot of people initially believed the recent attacks on U.S. and South Korean websites were launched by North Korea, for example, a country without a lot of money...), that doesn't actually explain why it was targetting him and not some other high-profile whistle-blower - or just the fact that these are popular sites, and are therefore an attractive target.
It also doesn't explain why he believes the attacks were coming from Russia, when nobody has actually said where they're coming from (that's the whole point of the first "D" in DDoS - the attacks come from all over the place!).
So I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that no, they weren't after this Cyxymu guy. They were after me! I don't use Facebook all that much (though my wife does) and I use Twitter only a little bit more, but I have some very strong opinions and a lot of people in high places don't like them!
What opinions? Oh, well, um... let's see... oh! I don't believe it was the atomic bombs that the U.S. dropped on Japan which won them the war. Yeah, that's controversial enough, I think! That's why people attacked Twitter and Facebook. To silence me!