rogerd - 2:27 pm on Aug 6, 2009 (gmt 0)

Ahh, here it is:

[washingtonpost.com...]

Twitter has been down for about 40 minutes now (since about 6 am California time), and counting. No word on their status blog about the outage at all (Update: they now say "Site is down - We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly.").