@MojangSupport Is minecraft server down?

Are you seeing any error messages? Are you trying to connect to a Realm, multiplayer world, or a server? ^FF

Multiplayer world, just keeps saying that it's timing out, quite a few reports on down detector too

Thanks for letting us know. In this case, please complete our request form at msft.it/6013gACE5 so that one of our Technical specialists can look further into this issue for you. ^FF

im having the same problem which many others are experiencing aswell, it seems to be a technical issue within Minecraft itself.