I suppose this is a good idea - the down or not site - but it took so long I thought it too was down. Yes, twitter is way down at the moment the site will not load at all.
Great post and exactly what I am trying to do. But...I found long ago that my name is not good enough - too many out there with the same name (some with really bad credit and I wind up with their problems - another story) so I came up with a pseudoname and have been using it for quite a while. My hub is new and fairly lame at this stage - but I'm working on it.