At around 10:20pm EST players started reporting server issues and errors of 'World Server Down". Players were unable to login to characters during this period. The whole time players were unable to login the realm status page showed all servers (US at least) as up and available. Server status should be accurately reflected especially if the world server is down. Else, having a realm status listing for informative reasons is pointless. Not only this, but inaccurate info / listings undermine the confidence of the community in the product.
Edit
I was able to log back in at 10:52pm. It looks as others players are able to as well.