Update: Twitter's downtime was due to an attack, according to the company. The nature of the attack is not yet known.
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Twitter.com loading slowly for you? Can't upload that awesome new background? Did Tweetdeck screech to a halt for you? Yeah, you're not alone: Yes, Twitter is down. Here's what Twitter is saying:
"We’re working to recover from a site outage and will update as we learn more."
Not exciting, but it confirms that Twitter is out of commission for the moment. So what could be causing this? Another DDoS attack? Or maybe all of Twitter is being taken down in anticipation of the Twitter messiah (or, if you want to be less dramatic, the soon-to-happen birth of the first child of Twitter CEO Evan Williams).