Why are you so frustrated? It clearly had issues, how would faster acknowledgment would make your day better? With limited resources I rather engineers to just fix the problem instead of spending time trying to give timely status updates.
An outage confirmation is nice to have before I debug things on my end or ask other people to check things, so I can understand the frustration to an extent (even if it seems overblown).
But it doesn't need to be a tweet for me. These people need sleep and/or could be spending their time on fixing the problem like you say, so just get a status page right? Everybody happy. (Just not one of those political ones like Amazon and co have, showing greens until someone hits the outage button manually.)