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I've found http://search.twitter.com far more reliable than any status dashboard for finding out if there is an issue or not.

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one should build a crowdsourced status checker to really know what happens.

http://downrightnow.com/ monitors twitter, their own user reports, official status RSS feeds, etc for a probability calculation of if a site is down or not.

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