One of the few uses of the Bitcointalk Twitter account is to notify whether the forum is down.
If the forum is down, I'll know when it doesn't load

I don't need Twitter for that.
Well, I would not know if the problem is on my side or on the forum's.
And maybe excepting a switch between clear net and Tor, I don't have external services where I could login and check. And I expect most of the users are in a worse situation.
...Or is there another way to find out and I've missed that?