As of 8:45 p.m. (5:45 Pacific), Twitter went down for (un)scheduled maintenance. The blog post says that the maintenance was rescheduled from yesterday, and that it should help fix performance issues they’re experiencing.

They say it will only be for an hour. We’ll see.

Updated: The service is back online.

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