Monitoring current status of the Diablo III servers?

Blizzard has a page for Diablo III server status, but it doesn't seem to be wholly accurate; I'm currently getting an "outage of Battle.net" error. If Battle.net is a distinct hoop I need to jump through when logging in, is its status available elsewhere? If not a simple red-light/green-light indicator; is there a forum for official announcements that's not flooded by plebeians?

Is there some 3rd party "are the servers up" website (e.g. EVE)?

Solution 1:

At the moment your best bet is to follow Blizzard's Twitter updates at https://twitter.com/#!/BlizzardCS. They've kept regular updates on Diablo III server availability, including the current maintenance.

Solution 2:

GamePlayStatus is also useful for checking overall status.

Solution 3:

Not exactly a website, but a small application that shows the server status for those on Android -

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mastaphora.diabloserverstatus