"down for maintenance" means "We don't know what the hell happened but this thing ain't working."

LOL Connie! and somehow me thinks they didn't exactly schedule the "maintenance"

Nah, they announce when they do scheduled maintenance. This was an 'Oops, sprung a leak" kind of maintenance.

all the tweeples might come here and see what is going on???

They're probably scrambling around looking for chewing gum, baling wire, and duct tape so they can git 'r back up and running.

Paging McGyver, please report to Twitter HQ

Why didn't we think of McGyver before???

Meanwhile ... have you heard that Plurk will release API "as soon as platform is stable." I just plurked a link.

working again