need a status.status.fb.com to indicate the status of the status

and / or an S3 bucket with a json blob the apps can pull to at least tell users 'here's what's up'

Reminds me of S3 outage a couple of years ago when AWS status page went down because it was relying on... S3...

It uses the same nameservers as facebook.com, same point of failure.

Seems like another poster posted finer details regarding BGP/peering which is ultimately causing the issue.