It looks like there is something more widespread today. I've noticed a couple other sites having issues. LiveJournal has confirmed they are under attack as well: http://community.livejournal.com/lj_maintenance/125027.html
Cheers, -Christoph Jorge Amodio wrote: > FB flakyness could be related to timeout with Twitter APIs > > Just reported by the birdhouse: > > "As we recover, users will experience some longer load times and > slowness. This includes timeouts to API clients. We’re working to get > back to 100% as quickly as we can." >