MINECRAFT : Failed to login : The authentication are currently down for maintenance [duplicate]

Please please someone help me , Whenever I try to connect to a multiplayer server on minecraft it says : Failed to login : The authentication are currently down for maintenance PLEASE HELP!!! I NEED TO PLAY

The problem is exactly what it says on the tin: the authentication servers are down for maintenance.

This generally means that they've had to get the servers off the line so they can make improvement work to it. There's nothing that anyone else can do about it until the servers come back online.

Sometimes the authentication servers go offline as it says in the error message. It varies when they go back up.

I recommend using http://xpaw.ru/mcstatus/ to check if they are really are down or if it is just you.