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Incidentally, this means every startup (and some of the bigger kids) that hosts its status page on Tumblr is missing a status page at the moment... eg: http://status.twitter.com

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There's something beautiful about:

    * Tumbler reports its outage status using twitter.
    * Twitter reports its outage status using tumbler.

Beautiful

The Minecraft launcher also relies on tumblr to serve the landing page, a couple of million players will be seeing this: http://i.imgur.com/Zft71.png

We've seen that before. It's better than the skin servers being down. Which they probably are.

I'd rather no skins than the constant auth.minecraft outages.

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