Yesterday wordpress users faced the issue with fetching the user stats. Yesterday wordpress tweeted on twitter saying
First Tweet: “WordPress.com experienced a service disruption this morning, but we’re back now. Thanks for your patience.”
After some time they came back with saying following sentenance on twitter
Second Tweet: You can always check the status of your favorite services—including WordPress.com—here: http://status.automattic.com/
Third Tweet: The status page is hosted completely independently so it will stay up if WordPress.com is down.
For checking the WordPress server status you need to check the following site:

More details go to following URL:
http://status.automattic.com/9931/135469/WordPress.com

What Automatic is Saying?
Automattic – Sites real-time websites availability and performance status. This site shows if Automattic – Sites sites are down or have performance issues right now, and provides Automattic – Sites uptime and performance history.
This status service is powered by WatchMouse website monitoring service. We will come with more details later.






Searching for this for some time now – i guess luck is more advanced than search engines