It seems that the issue may be Hurricane Electric. They appear to have completely disappeared from the Internet. Nothing like a global backbone taking a siesta from providing network service.
I did the exact same thing to check. It's nice that we live in a world where the latency of this sort of information is down to a few minutes.
This won't be apparent later on, so for everyone else: the story broke on twitter within ~2 minutes of the outage, several minutes before the Linode status blog.
Is anyone here using twitter to monitor outages and other similar spikes on twitter?
I don't use it to monitor, but it's one of the first places I go when things go awry to search and see if others are experiencing issues.
This is affecting me. :(
I was trying to access one of my sites right after it went down.