[dangrossman]

I'm not going to look for the real page because I don't want to take part in the DOS, but simply writing a loop that inserts an img or script tag into a document pointing at the target is all you'd need. Get 1000 people to click your link on Twitter and you have 1000 people making X requests per second... more traffic than the average site can handle.

[andreer]

You might be able to get a thousand clicks, but I can't imagine that a random visitor would keep the page open for very long. But there's no reason for it to look like a hacking tool. By embedding some sticky content, such as a html5/flash game, with the DDOS script running in the background, you'll quickly multiply the impact.

[JamesBlair]

Wouldn't the browser cache the request?

[dangrossman]

Add a random number to the query string and it won't.