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They're unable to email it out at the moment.

Are you sure? I'd presume their API cluster is hosted independently from their public website... unless Anonymous did their research and knows their API hostnames.

This is exactly the kind of situation where people discover their well-laid plans were faulty. NewsBlur learned this recently. And it's hard to test it out beforehand if you don't already have the traffic to test it with.

Odds are, this is just hundreds/thousands of new people trying the API out after this incident. DDoS by your own prospective customers.

It's also on their twitter. Recent tweets seem to indicate it's real: https://twitter.com/SendGrid/status/314768776577036288

It's also on their twitter. Recent tweets seem to indicate it's real

Posted via HootSuite:

https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/show/314768776577036288.j...

It looks like SendGrid use HootSuite for both Facebook and Twitter - that'd be one way of gaining access to both accounts.

Because their main site is down. It is being DDOS.

Presumably they want to regain customer loyalty.

It's on their Twitter account too.