can not connect to iTunes says fatal unable to process request

I have the same problem. On iMac and iPhone 5S

it will be back up wait awhile. its on apples end

Peace, Clyde

any one have any luck? all i keep seeing is "it'll be up soon" but that was 3 hours ago...

I tried changing my password and that worked for me. Hope this helps someone.

Same problem, cannot get in.

I have done the same thing and it's driving me nuts!!!

:'(

I want to update my apps.

I can sign in here fine...

I am having the same problem with Apple TV, Itunes on the computer AND iphone 5. Did a little research and something similar happened in 2011 and it was a server issue with the Itunes Store. I guess we got to be patient but I did report it and if you haven't you should. (East Coast USA)

Not according to current system status. Everything is functioning according to Apple:

http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

I am having the same issue as well. Can't be you - has to be Apple.

Same here.

Can't possibly be Apple. Maybe we're all just holding it wrong. :)

So I just got dumped off of a Chat support with these instructions but it still didn't work:

Open Finder and click on the Go menu in the  Apple Menu Bar.
2. Hold down the Option key and choose Library
3. Open the Cookies folder and locate these files
com.apple.appstore.cookies
cookies.binarycookies
4. Go ahead and move those files to your desktop, then restart the Mac
If the issue is resolved with this, those files can be deleted by moving them to the Trash. If the issue continues, we may want to explore alternative resolution steps.

I was also told to make sure I had the latest iTunes version which is 11.1.3... I have only 11.1... so tried to do that and yet another fatal error message. I couldn't reestablish contact once I restarted (of course) so I don't know what the alternative steps are... sorry...

So maybe this will work for someone else?

I can sign in on the Apple site, but not on my App/iTunes Store. I have tried changing passwords, always says " incorrect Apple ID or password." Same problem?

Same here on my iPad.i changed my password and that still didn't help. Apple needs to do something about it like...now.