We are currently investigating what caused today’s unscheduled down-time of Twitter.com, Odeo.com, and other sites that share a network at a colocation facility in San Francisco. Twitter is back in action now and we’re reasonably sure it had nothing to do with yesterday’s planned down-time for upgrades.

Ruby Twitter Gem: “This twitter library does more than just wrap the twitter api. It also uses it! You can post updates to your twitter and check in on your friends all from your fav terminal app.”

This afternoon we had a planned outage between 4-5pm PST to make Twitter faster. (Actually, between 4-5:17pm PST. we went over by 17 minutes and Luxury called us out.) Hopefully everybody caught the note we put in the Home sidebar. So yeah, Twitter should be pretty peppy now.

Drew McLellan has created a skinny little window you can use to display your friends’ twitterings. To try it out, just visit the Twitter Peek page and then enter the email and password you have registered with Twitter.