I can still connect and disconnect, so they are intermittent probably. Meant to edit it in but forgot.
I haven't been able to get on all day. "Error occurred while contacting login servers, are they down?"
They are intermittent, so keep trying every so often. http://xpaw.ru/mcstatus/ But all looks fine right now
keep trying since the servers are getting shutdown 2-10 mins each once and a while check here : https://help.mojang.com/ Keep Trying to login , its still unstable