I'm sure I'm not the first one to point this out, so I apologize if
I've missed earlier conversation on this, but this is my first time
looking at API requests during downtime.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<error reason="Planned maintenance" deadline="about an hour">
  Twitter is down for Planned maintenance. It will return in about an hour.
</error>

It's the "about an hour" part that gets me.

Twitter's been down for about an hour, and it still says "about an hour".

Wouldn't it make a whole lot more sense to give an actual parse-able
time-stamp at least in the 'deadline' field?

It doesn't have to be updated during the outage, but "about an hour"
doesn't really help much.

TjL

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